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Data-driven mergers and personalization
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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Elimination of competitors: Some economics of payment card associations
Arai, Koki - 2004
context of a payment card association. We study the cooperative antitrust determination of the interchange fee by member banks … cooperative determination of the interchange fee and antitrust conducts, we describe in detail the factors affecting merchant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332223
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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332191
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Horizontal mergers, firm heterogeneity, and R&D investments
Matsushima, Noriaki; Sato, 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332309
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332458
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Horizontal Mergers, Firm Heterogeneity, and R&D Investments
Matsushima, Noriaki - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013156465
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014157025
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Does Self-Regulation of Advertisement Length Improve Consumer Welfare?
Matsubae, Taisuke; Matsushima, Noriaki - 2016
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014041759
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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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