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The paper unveils the market structure of container shipping, which suffers by many interpretations. Existing models regress between contestability, duopoly, monopolistic competition and game theory. This paper proposes an oligopoly model with two groups of companies: oligopolists and...
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This is a survey of the economic principles that underlie antitrust law and how those principles relate to competition policy. We address four core subject areas: market power, collusion, mergers between competitors, and monopolization. In each area, we select the most relevant portions of...
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In this paper, we use a partition function form game to analyze cartel formation among firms in Cournot competition. We … level of the cost advantage is "moderate", then the firm with the cost advantage leads the cartel formation among the firms …. Moreover, if the cost advantage is relatively high, then the formed cartel can also be stable in the sense of the core of a …
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Using the coefficient of cooperation, we analyse the effect of cost asymmetries on collusive agreements when firms are able to coordinate on distinct output levels than the unrestricted joint profit maximization outcome. In this context, we first investigate the extent to which collusive...
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In this paper, we aim to investigate the collusive stability in the presence of network externalities among firms with relative performance in the firm's objective functions. We demonstrate that collusive stability is increasing (decreasing) in the degree of relative performance, product...
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a lower network price. It is helpful to the development of the whole industry. However, once Cartel is formed, the price … long-time Cartel will reduce the market entrant in electricity generation. Market resources are centralized in the hands of … Cartel, causing a low effective competition in the market, which has passive effects on users. Implications: The empirical …
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Media industries are important drivers of popular culture. A large fraction of leisure time is devoted to radio, magazines, newspapers, the Internet, and television (the illustrative example henceforth). Most advertising expenditures are incurred for these media. They are also mainly supported...
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