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An Economic Analysis of Platform Sharing

Morita, Hodaka; Ghosh, Arghya - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

We explore the managerial implications and economic consequences of platform sharing under models of horizontal and vertical product differentiation. By using a common platform across different products, firms can save on fixed costs for platform development. At the same time, platform sharing...

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The Bidder Exclusion Effect

Coey, Dominic; Larsen, Bradley; Sweeney, Kane - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

We introduce a simple and robust approach to answering two key questions in empirical auction analysis: discriminating between models of entry and quantifying the revenue gains from improving auction design. The approach builds on Bulow and Klemperer (1996), connecting their theoretical results...

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Sunk Costs and Real Options in Antitrust

Pindyck, Robert S. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

Sunk costs play a central role in antitrust economics, but are often misunderstood and mismeasured. I will try to … clarify some of the conceptual and empirical issues related to sunk costs, and explain their implications for antitrust … just as relevant for antitrust analysis as the direct cost of a machine or a factory. …

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Sunk Costs and Risk-Based Barriers to Entry

Pindyck, Robert S. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

In merger analysis and other antitrust settings, risk is often cited as a potential barrier to entry. But there is …

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Why Tie A Product Consumers Do Not Use?

Carlton, Dennis W.; Waldman, Michael; Gans, Joshua S. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

examples and explore its antitrust implications. …

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Competition in Health Care Markets

Gaynor, Martin; Town, Robert J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

This paper reviews the literature devoted to studying markets for health care services and health insurance. There has been tremendous growth and progress in this field. A tremendous amount of new research has been done in this area over the last 10 years. In addition, there has been increasing...

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Asymmetric Learning in Repeated Contracting: An Empirical Study

Cohen, Alma - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

This paper studies a unique panel dataset of transactions with repeat customers of an insurer operating in a market in which insurers are not required by law or contract to share information about their customers' records. I use this dataset to test the asymmetric learning hypothesis that...

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Evaluating Welfare with Nonlinear Prices

Reiss, Peter C.; White, Matthew W. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

This paper examines how to evaluate consumer welfare when consumers face nonlinear prices. This problem arises in many settings, such as devising optimal pricing strategies for firms, assessing how price discrimination affects consumers, and evaluating the efficiency costs of many transfer...

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Output Price and Markup Dispersion in Micro Data: The Roles of Producer Heterogeneity and Noise

Roberts, Mark J.; Supina, Dylan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1997

This paper provides empirical evidence on the extent of producer heterogeneity in the output market by analyzing output price and price-marginal cost markups at the plant level for thirteen homogenous manufactured goods. It relies on micro data from the U.S. Census of Manufactures over the...

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The Antitrust Analysis of Multi-Sided Platform Businesses

Schmalensee, Richard; Evans, David S. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

competition policy issues, including market definition, mergers, monopolization, and coordinated behavior. It provides a survey of … application of antitrust analysis to multi-sided platform businesses. It shows that it is not possible to know whether standard … economic models, often relied on for antitrust analysis, apply to multi-sided platforms without explicitly considering the …

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