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significantly affect competition. Finally, using the estimation results, it is show that the public policy, which consisted of … ratio methodology from Bresnahan and Reiss (1991), which allows estimation even when the range of products under examination … coverage exists. Moreover, it is found that a second entrant in this market strongly increases competition, while further entry …
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Market manipulation is a poorly understood phenomenon, due in part to legal standards that categorize manipulative behavior as either an act of outright fraud or as the nebulous use of market power to produce an artificial price. In this paper, we consider a third type of behavior that can...
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efficiency gains. In particular we show that when there is perfect competition among the competitive fringe, firms do not have …
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increase with the intensity of competition. We develop a new measure of competition for which we use the proximity (in … departure time) of a given flight to its competitors to infer the intensity of competition and estimate the impact of … competition on advance purchase discounts (APDs) and the dynamic pricing of airlines by exploiting plausibly exogenous changes in …
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A model of competition between two interconnected cellular networks is presented which shows the effects of cellular … termination charges on competition and market penetration in the cellular sector. We show that the determination of cellular … fixed-to-cellular prices are determined under perfect competition …
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We develop a model of competition between interconnected networks, with separate local and long-distance markets …, allowing for various degrees of symmetry between carriers. Assuming two part pricing, we show that effective competition can be … interconnected local networks want to agree on cost based interconnection charges, but that through competition for local market …
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rivals from getting the spectrum needed to compete effectively. Thus, regulators typically attempt to protect competition …
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in various sectors of the Danish economy. It looks at a number of indicators of the strength of competition — including … competition legislation framework. The paper then focuses on the large public sector, which has been slow to open up to … competition, partly because of regulatory restrictions but also because some local governments are too small to handle tenders and …
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Vigorous product market competition plays a central role in bolstering productivity growth. Sweden has strengthened … competition legislation and deregulated a number of sectors, including electricity, telecommunications and parts of transport …, over the past 10 to 15 years. This paper examines the current state of product market competition and proposes further …
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