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Trade Restrictions as Facilitating Practices

Krishna, Kala - 1985

This paper deals with the effect of trade restrictions on competition in oligopolistic markets. Quantitative restrictions, such as VER's (Voluntary Export Restrictions) are shown to affect the extent to which foreign firms can compete in the domestic market, and hence to raise the equilibrium...

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Antitrust

Kaplow, Louis - 2007

policy. We address four core subject areas: market power, collusion, mergers between competitors, and monopolization. In each …

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Tacit Collusion in the Presence of Cyclical Demand and Endogenous Capacity Levels

Knittel, Christopher R. - 2006

We analyze tacit collusion in an industry characterized by cyclical demand and long-run scale decisions; firms face … that two types of price wars may exist. In one, collusion can involve periods of mixed strategy price wars. In the other …

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Antitrust and Higher Education : Was There a Conspiracy to Restrict Financial Aid?

Carlton, Dennis W. - 1995

In 1991, the Antitrust Division sued MIT and the eight schools in the Ivy League under Section 1 of the Sherman Act for engaging in a conspiracy to fix the prices that students pay. The Antitrust Division claimed that the schools conspired on financial aid policies in an effort to reduce aid and...

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Leveraging Monopoly Power by Degrading Interoperability : Theory and Evidence from Computer Markets

Genakos, Christos - 2011

When will a monopolist have incentives to foreclose a complementary market by degrading compatibility/interoperability of his products with those of rivals? We develop a framework where leveraging extracts more rents from the monopoly market by "restoring" second degree price discrimination. In...

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Screening Adaptive Cartels

Ortner, Juan M.; Chassang, Sylvain; Kawai, Kei; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

, regardless of the underlying economic environment. Our main result establishes that screening for collusion with safe tests is a …

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Consumer Demand with Social Influences : Evidence from an E-Commerce Platform

Caoui, El Hadi; Farronato, Chiara; Horton, John J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

this paper, we explore the economics of rare goods using auctions of limited-edition shoes held by an e-commerce platform …. We model endogenous entry and bidding in multi-unit auctions and construct demand curves from realized bids. We find that …

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Online Auctions

Ockenfels, Axel - 2006

The economic literature on online auctions is rapidly growing because of the enormous amount of freely available field …-now options) in online auctions, as well as some of the literature dealing with online-auction design (including stopping rules …

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Economic Insights from Internet Auctions : A Survey

Bajari, Patrick - 2003

This paper surveys recent studies of Internet auctions. Four main areas of research are summarized. First, economists …'s curse. Third, we explore research about the role of reputation in online auctions. Finally, we discuss what Internet … auctions have to teach us about auction design …

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Public Versus Secret Reserve Prices in eBay Auctions : Results from a Pokemon Field Experiment

Katkar, Rama - 2001

Sellers in eBay auctions have the opportunity to choose both a public minimum bid amount and a secret reserve price. We …

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