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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 …

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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. …

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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. …

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Entry and competition in freight transport : the case of a prospective transalpine rail link between France and Italy

Prady, Delphine; Ullrich, Hannes - 2010

We analyze the expected effects of building a rail tunnel between Lyon and Turin on i) the market shares of the established and the new suppliers, and ii) consumer surplus. The prospective project consists of a 53km rail tunnel providing freight shippers with a new alpine path. We calibrate an...

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Supply and demand for telecommunication infrastructure

Veith, Tobias - 2010

The interplay of infrastructure supply and demand is of central interest in line with Web 2.0. As the role of customers turns from a service users’ role to an information providers’ role, the traffic on existing lines increases and, simultaneously, customers’ demand for high-quality...

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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....

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