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We develop a quantitative theory of prices in firm-to-firm trade with bilateral negotiations and two-sided market power. Markups reflect oligopoly and oligopsony forces, with relative bargaining power as weight. Cost pass-through elasticities into import prices can be incomplete or complete,...
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provides an introduction to the economics of 2SPs and its application to several competition policy issues …
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expectations of future profits which, in turn, depend on the nature of competition within the market. In this paper we estimate a … by potential entrants, fixed costs faced by incumbent producers, and the toughness of short-run price competition are all …
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This paper tests how competition in local U.S. banking markets affects the market structure of non-financial sectors …. Theory offers competing hypotheses about how competition ought to influence firm entry and access to bank credit by mature …
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We study an economy in which consumers and merchants (sellers) interact on a two-sided platform. Consumers can share data about their tastes for different varieties of a single good with the platform which in turn sells this data to merchants. Data sharing increases gains from trade by improving...
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This paper investigates how the tying of complementary products can be used to preserve and extend monopoly positions. We first show how a firm that is a monopolist of a product in the current period can use tying to preserve its monopoly position in future periods. We then show using related...
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competition policy issues, including market definition, mergers, monopolization, and coordinated behavior. It provides a survey of …
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We evaluate the consequences of narrow hospital networks in commercial health care markets. We develop a bargaining solution, Nash-in-Nash with Threat of Replacement, that captures insurers' incentives to exclude, and combine it with California data and estimates from Ho and Lee (2017) to...
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In essence, this paper will try to decompose the concentration-profits relationship into separate concentration-price arid concentration-cost relationships. By doing this, I hope to shed light on some of the allocative and distributive issues that, I suspect, give the subject its intrinsic...
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We examine the interplay between market structure and the form that commodity taxation should take in a general equilibrium model in which firms produce differentiated products and so are able to exert market power. Our analysis takes account of two important recent developments that affect...
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