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Competition before sunset: The case of the Finnish ATM market
Kopsakangas-Savolainen, Maria; Takalo, Tuomas - Suomen Pankki - 2012
optimal regulation. We use the model to analyze an actual regulation of such a market by competition authorities in Finland … Ramsey regulation. While the Finnish regulation pushes the foreign fee downwards towards its socially optimal level, the … regulated fees are likely to remain too high from the welfare point of view. In contrast with the actual regulation, it would be …
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Cartel Detection and Collusion Screening: An Empirical Analysis of the London Metal Exchange
Samà, Danilo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
In order to fight collusive behaviors, the best scenario for competition authorities would be the possibility to analyze detailed information on firms' costs and prices, being the price-cost margin a robust indicator of market power. However, information on firms' costs is rarely available. In...
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The Elusive Antitrust Standard on Bundling in Europe and in the United States at the Aftermath of the Microsoft Cases
Economides, Nicholas; Lianos, Ioannis - NET Institute - 2007
We analyze and contrast the US and EU antitrust standards on mixed bundling and tying. We apply our analysis to the US and EU cases against Microsoft on the issue of tying new products (Internet Explorer in the US, and Windows Media Player in the EU) with Windows as well as to cases brought in...
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Supplier Fixed costs and Retail Market Monopolization
Caprice, Stéphane; von Schlippenbach, Vanessa; Wey, … - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) - 2014
Considering a vertical structure with perfectly competitive upstream firms that deliver a homogenous good to a differentiated retail duopoly, we show that upstream fixed costs may help to monopolize the downstream market. We find that downstream prices increase in upstream firms'fixed costs when...
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Supplier fixed costs and retail market monopolization
Caprice, Stéphane; von Schlippenbach, Vanessa; Wey, … - Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), … - 2014
Considering a vertical structure with perfectly competitive upstream firms that deliver a homogenous good to a differentiated retail duopoly, we show that upstream fixed costs may help to monopolize the downstream market. We find that downstream prices increase in upstream firms' fixed costs...
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Supplier Fixed Costs and Retail Market Monopolization
Caprice, Stéphane; Schlippenbach, Vanessa von; Wey, … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014
Considering a vertical structure with perfectly competitive upstream firms that deliver a homogenous good to a differentiated retail duopoly, we show that upstream fixed costs may help to monopolize the downstream market. We find that downstream prices increase in upstream firms' fixed costs...
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Foreclosing Competition through Access Charges and Price Discrimination
López, Ángel L.; Rey, Patrick - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009
This article analyzes competition between two asymmetric networks, an incumbent and a new entrant. Networks compete in non-linear tariffs and may charge different prices for on-net and off-net calls. Departing from cost-based access pricing allows the incumbent to foreclose the market in a...
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U.S. Antitrust and EU Competition Policy: Where has the Former Been, Where is the Latter Going?
Martin, Stephen - Departamento de Economia, Gestão e Engenharia … - 2005
The earliest U.S. antitrust laws were adopted after technological changes — most importantly, the development of a national railway network — made the U.S. political union a single economic market. They were adopted with the stated, and no doubt largely sincere, purposes of preventing...
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Price Discrimination for Pharmaceuticals: Welfare Effects in the US and the EU
Danzon, Patricia - In: International Journal of the Economics of Business 4 (1997) 3, pp. 301-322
differentials between countries are being undermined by parallel trade and regulation based on foreign prices. This break down of …
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Regulatory reform and market development in power sectors of transition economies: the case of Kazakhstan
Kennedy, David - European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) - 2000
market was liberalised. A number of reform challenges remain, however, in the areas of privatisation, regulation and …
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