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Chen, Zhijun; Choe, Chongwoo; Cong, Jiajia; Matsushima, … - 2020

Recent years have seen growing cases of data-driven tech mergers such as Google/Fitbit, inwhich a dominant digital platform acquires a relatively small rm possessing a large volumeof consumer data. The digital platform can consolidate the consumer data with its existingdata set from other...

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Horizontal merger analysis with endogenous product range choice

Erkal, Nisvan; Pan, Lijun - 2022

single-product firms. Mergers can generate marginal cost synergies (affecting marginal cost of quantity) or fixed cost … synergies (affecting marginal cost of variety). We show that with marginal cost synergies, consumer welfare decreases whenever … aggregate variety increases following a merger. However, with fixed cost synergies, an increase in aggregate variety can …

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Horizontal mergers, firm heterogeneity, and R&D investments

Matsushima, Noriaki; Satō, Yasuhiro; Yamamoto, Kazuhiro - 2009

We investigate the incentive and the welfare implications of a merger when heterogeneous oligopolists compete both in process R&D and on the product market. We examine how a merger affects the output, investment, and profits of firms, whether firms have merger incentives, and, if so, whether...

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Who benefits from resale-below-cost laws?

Matsushima, Noriaki; Miyaoka, Akira - 2013

We investigate the effect of banning resale-below-cost offers. There are two retailers with heterogeneous bargaining positions in relation to a monopolistic manufacturer. Each retailer sells two goods: one procured from the monopolistic manufacturer and the other, from a competitive fringe. In...

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Does self-regulation of advertisement length improve consumer welfare?

Matsubae, Taisuke; Matsushima, Noriaki - 2012

In Japan, TV platforms regulate themselves as to the length of the advertisements they air. Using modified Hotelling models, we investigate whether such self-regulation improves consumer and social welfare or not. When all consumers choose a single TV program (the utility functions of consumers...

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How do market structures affect decisions on vertical integration/separation

Matsushima, Noriaki; Mizuno, Tomomichi - 2010

We provide a simple model to investigate decisions on vertical integration/separation. The key feature of this model is that more than one input is required for the final products of the local downstream monopolists. Depending on their cost structure, downstream firms' decisions on vertical...

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Quality improvement to meet competitive fringe

Matsushima, Noriaki; Liu, Ren-Jye - 2012

We investigate what kind of competitive pressure induces existing firms to engage in more intensive innovation activities. We examine two types of competitive pressure: a price decrease in competitive fringe firms and a quality improvement therein. We use an oligopoly model with vertical...

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Expanding distribution channels

Matsushima, Noriaki - 2016

We provide a model in which upstream producers, whose production cost is quadratic in quantity, sell their products through two distribution channels, a traditional channel and an external retailer. Some producers (called "large" producers) supply to both channels, whereas other producers...

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Should firms employ personalized pricing?

Matsumura, Toshihiro; Matsushima, Noriaki - 2013

The recent developments in information technology (IT) have enabled firms to employ personalized pricing. Should all firms employ personalized pricing even though the adaptation costs of such pricing strategies are not high? This paper theoretically demonstrates a situation in which all firms do...

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Nature of competition and new technology adoption

Dastidar, Krishnendu Ghosh - 2014

This paper analyses the incentives to adopt cost-reducing technology by firms in a horizontally differentiated industry. In our model there are several suppliers of a new technology. The extent of the cost reduction depends on the quality of the new technology. A firm has to buy the technology...

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