We study competition in the German interurban bus industry two years after its liberalization in January 2013. In … of market power by incumbents - and derive several recommendations to secure effective competition in the industry. …

monopoly basis, competition does play a key role on routes with a sufficiently large base of (potential) customers. From a … 24 years old and the presence of intermodal competition by intercity railway services. …

in order to mitigate competition or offer a higher quality in order to restrict the entrant's geographical coverage. …

-to-head competition with the seller, regardless of the level of horizontal differentiation. Mandating data-sharing, which allows the … competition in the downstream market. We then show that banning the hybrid business model and forbidding the use of data for price … competition comes from the platform's business model rather than from its information advantage. …

in order to mitigate competition or offer a higher quality in order to restrict the entrant's geographical coverage. …

consider the effects of a horizontal merger on other competition variables such as product variety, marketing as well as R …