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Cartel overcharges and the deterrent effect of EU competition law
Smuda, Florian - 2012
This paper examines cartel overcharges for the European market. Using a sample of 191 overcharge estimates and several … parametric and semi-parametric estimation procedures, the impact of different cartel characteristics and the market environment ….37 percent of the selling price and the average cartel duration is 8.35 years. Certain cartel characteristics and the geographic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009572459
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Market structure and market performance in e-commerce
Hackl, Franz; Kummer, Michael E.; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; … - 2011
We investigate the effect of market structure on market performance in the market for consumer electronics. This research is novel, because we exploit product life cycle information to build an instrumental variable for the number of firms in a market, a variable which hitherto had to be treated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009424067
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Reassessing competition concerns in electronic communications markets
Peitz, Martin; Valletti, Tommaso M. - 2014
Central features of today’s electronic communications markets are complementarities between the different layers of the value chain, substitutability between some applications, network effects in the provision of content and services, two-sided business models that partly involve indirect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010437054
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Innovation strategies of German firms : the effect of competition and intellectual property protection
Slivko, Olga - 2012
This article analyzes how the perceived effectiveness of intellectual property protection and competitive pressure affect firms' innovation strategy choices, concretely, whether to abstain from innovation, to introduce products that are known in the market but new to the firm (imitation) or to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009686719
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Market structure and market performance in e-commerce
Hackl, Franz; Kummer, Michael E.; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; … - 2012 - This version: May 25, 2012
We investigate the effect of market structure on market performance in the market for consumer electronics. This research is novel, because we exploit product life cycle information to build an instrumental variable for the number of firms in a market, a variable which hitherto had to be treated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010219756
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The effect of regulatory scrutiny asymmetric cost pass-through in power wholesale and its end
Mokinski, Frieder; Wölfing, Nikolas - 2013
We find an asymmetric pass-through of European Emission Allowance (EUA) prices to wholesale electricity prices in Germany and show that this asymmetry has disappeared in response to a report on investigations by the competition authority. The asymmetric pricing pattern, however, was not detected...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009784017
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Beyond national economy-wide rebound effects : an applied general equilibrium analysis incorporating international spillover effects
Koesler, Simon; Swales, John Kim; Turner, Karen - 2014
This paper proposes that the national focus of energy ‘rebound’ studies should be extended to an international context in the presence of supra-national agreements such as EU 20-20-20. The potential for energy efficiency improvements in one nation to impact energy use in others means that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010341814
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Competition, collusion and spatial sales patterns : theory and evidence
Hunold, Matthias; Hüschelrath, Kai; Laitenberger, Ulrich; … - 2017
on average significantly lower in cartel years than in non-cartel years. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011724001
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Competition, collusion and spatial sales patterns : theory and evidence
Hunold, Matthias; Hüschelrath, Kai; Laitenberger, Ulrich; … - 2017 - This version: December 31, 2017
on average significantly lower in cartel years than in non-cartel years. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011778632
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Giving away the game? : The impact of the disclosure effect on the patenting decision
Heger, Diana; Zaby, Alexandra K. - 2012
This article explores the propensity to patent in the light of the disclosure effect. Unlike earlier approaches concerned with the patenting decision, we take into account that a disclosure effect may decrease the merits of patenting by facilitating inventing around the patent for competitors....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009509671