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Entry and Competition in Local Newspaper Retail Markets - When two are enough

Balmer, Roberto - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This chapter estimates sustainable coverage and competitive effects of entry for Swiss newspaper sellers which sell composite goods, including a range of other products such as food and near-food items. It utilises the applied entry threshold ratio methodology from Bresnahan and Reiss (1991),...

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In Defense of Trusts: R&D Cooperation in Global Perspective

Hinloopen, Jeroen; Smrkolj, Grega; Wagener, Florian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

We present a continuous-time generalization of the seminal R&D model of d’Aspremont and Jacquemin (American Economic Review, Vol. 78, No. 5) to examine the trade-off between the benefits of allowing firms to cooperate in R&D and the corresponding increased potential for product market...

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Uno, nessuno o centomila? Tre miti sui prezzi dei carburanti in Italia

Stagnaro, Carlo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This paper deals with the issue of transparency in the pricing process for motor fuels, vis-à-vis the collusion charges between oil companies (for which no evidence is found) and the «myth» of «one» national price for motor fuels. Such an approach ignores both the competition between oil...

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Competition and Market Strategies in the Swiss Fixed Telephony Market. An estimation of Swisscom’s dynamic residual demand curve.

Balmer, Roberto - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Fixed telephony has long been a fundamentally important market for European telecommunications operators. The liberalisation and the introduction of regulation in the end of the 1990s, however, allowed new entrants to compete with incumbents at the retail level. A rapid price decline and a...

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Tacit collusion and capacity withholding in repeated uniform price auctions

Dechenaux, Emmanuel; Kovenock, Dan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

This article analyzes tacit collusion in infinitely repeated multiunit uniform price auctions in a symmetric oligopolywith capacity-constrained firms.Under two popular definitions of the uniform price, when each firm sets a price-quantity pair, perfect collusion with equal sharing of profit is...

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Abuse of collective dominance under the competition law of the Russian Federation

Avdasheva, Svetlana; Goreyko, Nadezhda; Pittman, Russell - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

In 2006, Russia amended its competition law and added the concepts of “collective dominance” and its abuse. This was seen as an attempt to address the common problem of “conscious parallelism” among firms in concentrated industries. Critics feared that the enforcement of this provision...

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Infrastructure-Based Versus Service-Based : Competition In Telecommunications

Lundborg, Jörg; Lundborg, Martin; Lundborg, Ernst-Olav - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

Unbundling of the local loop (ULL) has seen quite different "success stories" in the various countries across Europe. Although the obligation for the provision of ULL was implemented in the regulatory framework early and mostly parallel to other means of liberalisation, national implementation...

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Investing in a Website: A Top Dog or a Resource-Based Strategy for Firms?

Martin, Ludivine; Penard, Thierry - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

drivers of website investment. In particular, firms tend to invest more in websites when markets are highly concentrated and …

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Innovation, Investment and Regulation: What are the Options for Regulation in the Near Future?

Flacher, David; Jennequin, Hugues; Lorenzi, Jean-Hervé - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

answer this question, the paper focuses on the problem of investment and innovation in an ex ante regulated sector. Relying … sector by delaying or cancelling investment projects, especially (but not only) concerning the construction of new … infrastructures. We also argue that ex ante regulation is distorting investment itself: incremental investment is privileged as …

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Is the U.S. Dancing to a Different Drummer?

Marcus, J. Scott - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

Is the United States in full retreat from internationally recognized regulatory best practice? Or is it instead headed toward some different destination – "dancing to the beat of a different drummer"? Where is this likely to lead?

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