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De los Santos, Babur; Wildenbeest, Matthijs R. - 2014

This paper empirically analyzes how the use of vertical price restraints has impacted retail prices in the market for e-books. In 2010 five of the six largest publishers simultaneously adopted the agency model of book sales, allowing them to directly set retail prices. This led the Department of...

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An Empirical Analysis of Minimum Advertised Price Restrictions

Asmat, Danial - 2019

Recent theory has examined the competitive effects of minimum advertised price (MAP) restrictions: manufacturer policies that can limit the ability of consumers to search for product prices. In this paper, we empirically study the effect of a major electronics manufacturer's MAP policy on the...

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Merger Control on Two-Sided Markets : Is There Need for an Efficiency Defense?

Baranes, Edmond - 2014

We study horizontal mergers on two-sided markets between horizontally differentiated platforms. We provide a theoretical analysis of the merger's price effect based on the amount of cost savings it generates, the behavior of outsider platforms, and the size of cross-group network effects. We...

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Restrictions on Privacy and Exploitation in the Digital Economy : A Competition Law Perspective

Economides, Nicholas - 2020

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The Elusive Antitrust Standard on Bundling in Europe and in the United States in the Aftermath of the Microsoft Cases

Economides, Nicholas; Lianos, Ioannis - 2014

This study analyzes and contrasts the U.S. and EU antitrust standards on bundling (in its various forms) and tying. The analysis is applied to the U.S. and EU cases concerning Microsoft's practice of integrating (tying) new products (Internet Explorer in the U.S. and Windows Media Player in the...

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A Retail Benchmarking Approach to Efficient Two-Way Access Pricing : Two-Part Tariffs

Jeon, Doh-Shin; Hurkens, Sjaak - 2008

We study a retail benchmarking approach to determine access prices for interconnected networks. Instead of considering fixed access charges as in the existing literature, we study access pricing rules that determine the access price that network i pays to network j as a linear function of the...

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Optimal Cartel Prices in Two-Sided Markets

Boffa, Federico; Filistrucchi, Lapo - 2014

We study optimal cartel prices in a two-sided market. We present a simple model showing that prices above the two-sided monopoly price may prevail on one side of a two-sided market as a means to enhance the sustainability of the cartel. We prove that in such a case a higher benefit from the...

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Bundling and Collusion in Communications Markets

Baranes, Edmond - 2008

sustainability of collusion in an infinitely repeated game framework. We show that the bundling strategy of the entrant might hinder … collusion. Futhermore, we consider a setting in which the entrant uses a one-way access that the incumbent possesses. In such … might increase the feasibility of collusion. This result has an important policy implication …

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Competing for Influencers in a Social Network

Katona, Zsolt - 2020

This paper studies the competition between firms for influencers in a network. Firms spend effort to convince influencers to recommend their products. The analysis identifies the offensive and defensive roles of spending on influencers. The value of an influencer only depends on the in-degree...

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