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The whole is greater than the sum of its parts : pricing pressure indices for mergers of vertically integrated firms

Trost, Michael - 2018

pressure indices, the GUPPI concept of Salop/Moresi (2009) and the vGUPPI concept of Moresi/Salop (2013). Such a simple … screen mergers between mobile network operators which compete with mobile virtual network operators in the downstream retail … imposed so that the iGUPPI for the upstream market allows for a decomposition into an upstream market version of the GUPPI and …

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Is the whole greater than the sum of its parts? : pricing pressure indices for mergers of vertically integrated firms

Trost, Michael - In: Review of industrial organization 58 (2021) 2, pp. 235-262

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Happily ever after? - vertical and horizontal mergers in the U.S. media industry

Stöhr, Annika; Noskova, Victoriia; Kunz-Kaltenhäuser, … - 2019

This paper provides an economic analysis of recent vertical and horizontal mergers in the U.S. industry for audiovisual … media content, including the AT&T-Time Warner and the Disney-Fox mergers. Using a theory-driven approach, we examine … economic effects of these types of mergers on market competition, focusing on digital media content distribution. In doing so …

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Chapter 15 Antitrust

Kaplow, Louis; Shapiro, Carl - In: Handbook of law and economics : volume 2, (pp. 1073-1225). 2007

policy. We address four core subject areas: market power, collusion, mergers between competitors, and monopolization. In each …

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Do we (still) need to regulate fixed network retail markets?

Briglauer, Wolfgang; Goetz, Georg; Schwarz, Anton - 2008

In the beginning of fixed network liberalisation in Europe in the late 1990s, the main concern of regulators was to lower calls prices. This was done by introducing wholesale regulation and promoting service based competition. Some years later, the concern of some regulators turned from too high...

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Margin squeeze in fixed-network telephony markets : competitive or anticompetitive?

Briglauer, Wolfgang; Goetz, Georg; Schwarz, Anton - 2008

This paper looks at the effects of different forms of wholesale and retail regulation on retail competition in fixed network telephony markets. We explicitly model two asymmetries between the incumbent operator and the entrant: (i) While the incumbent has zero marginal costs, the entrant has the...

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Predatory exclusive dealing

Klein, Joachim; Zenger, Hans - 2009

While the previous literature on exclusive dealing has been concerned with the question of how exclusive dealing can raise static profits, this paper analyzes the question of how exclusive dealing can be used to predate in a dynamic context. It is shown that exclusive dealing may arise even if...

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Turning the page on business formats for digital platforms : does Apple's agency model soften competition?

Foros, Oystein; Kind, Hans Jarle; Shaffer, Greg Eric - 2013

The agency model used by Apple and other platform providers such as Google allows upstream firms (content providers like book publishers and developers of apps) to choose the retail prices of their products (RPM) subject to a fixed revenue-sharing rule. We show that (i) this leads to higher...

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Are restrictions of competition by sports associations horizontal or vertical in nature?

Budzinski, Oliver; Szymanski, Stefan - 2014

In this paper, we discuss from an economic perspective two alternative views of restrictions of competition by sports associations. The horizontal approach views such restrictions as an agreement among the participants of a sports league with the sports association merely representing an...

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Exclusive contracts and bargaining power

Kitamura, Hiroshi; Matsushima, Noriaki; Sato, Misato - 2016

This study constructs a simplest model to examine anticompetitive exclusive contracts that prevent a downstream buyer from buying input from a new up-stream supplier. Incorporating Nash bargaining into the standard one-buyer-one-supplier framework in the Chicago School critique, we show a...

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