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We provide a comprehensive quantitative assessment of cartels and the related cartel enforcement process in the European Union (EU) from 2001 to 2015. In a first step, we present a detailed characterization of all cartel cases decided by the European Commission (EC) with respect to various...

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Selling service plans to differentially informed customers

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We characterize a monopolist's optimal offer of service plans when only informed customers know already at the contracting stage whether their demand is high or low, while uninformed customers may learn their demand only after incurring some costs, if at all. While informed customers purchase...

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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...

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Vertical integration, separation and non-price discrimination : an empirical analysis of German electricity markets for residential customers

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The literature on vertical integration in markets with regulated upstream prices suggests that the integrated upstream firm might engage in non-price discrimination. Several studies provide policy recommendations derived either from case study approaches or based on theoretical modeling which...

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Strategic pricing, market entry and competition : evidence from German electricity submarkets

Nikogosian, Vigen; Veith, Tobias - 2011

In German electricity submarkets for residential customers standard contracts offered by former monopolists are the more costly option for customers who have not switched to an alternative contract yet. As most German households are served with this contract type we follow the Limit Pricing...

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Non-sequential search, competition and price dispersion in retail electricity

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We investigate the impact of consumer search and competition on pricing strategies in Germany’s electricity retail. We utilize a unique panel dataset on spatially varying search requests at major online price comparison websites to construct a direct measure of search intensity and combine...

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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

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Market liberalization : price dispersion, price discrimination and consumer search in the German electricity markets

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We study how consumer search affects pricing in markets with incumbents and entrants using panel data on German electricity retail markets. Consumers observe the baseline price of the incumbent and decide whether or not to search. Incumbent providers can price discriminate between searching and...

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Implications of network convergence on local access regulation in the US and the EU

Vanberg, Margit A. (contributor) - 2007

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Supply and demand for telecommunication infrastructure

Veith, Tobias - 2010

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