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Cartel Detection and Collusion Screening: An Empirical Analysis of the London Metal Exchange

Samà, Danilo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

the budget constraints to which antitrust watchdogs are commonly subject to, a such price screen could be set up, just …

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Monopolization through acquisition

Prokop, Jacek - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

of the restrictions imposed by the antitrust authorities. The analysis is conducted in two models: a static and a dynamic … model of monopolization by a single buyer. In contrast to preceding models, a firm owner is allowed to use mixed strategies … in order to decide whether to sell his firm or not. The static model implies that the monopolization through acquisition …

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Strategic choice of sharing rules in collective contests

Balart, Pau; Flamand, Sabine; Troumpounis, Orestis - Department of Economics, Management School - 2014

group from the competition, a situation called monopolization. Conversely, there is a degree of relative privateness above …

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Dynamic competition with consumer inertia

Pot, Erik; Flesch, János; Peeters, Ronald; Vermeulen, Dries - In: Journal of Mathematical Economics 49 (2013) 5, pp. 355-366

equilibrium outcome. Moreover, we find that both monopolization and enduring market share and price fluctuations (price wars) can …

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Exclusive Quality

Argenton, Cédric - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2008

In the case of vertically differentiated products, Bertrand competition at the retail level does not prevent an incumbent upstream firm from using exclusivity contracts to deter the entry of a more efficient rival, contrary to what happens in the homogenous product case. Indeed, because of...

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Exclusivity as Inefficient Insurance

Argenton, Cédric; Willems, Bert - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2009

It is well established that an incumbent firm may use exclusivity contracts so as to monopolize an industry or deter entry. Such an anticompetitive practice could be tolerated if it were associated with sufficiently large efficiency gains, e.g. insuring buyers against price volatility. In this...

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Exclusion Through Speculation

Argenton, Cédric; Willems, Bert - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2010

Many commodities are traded on both a spot market and a derivative market. We show that an incumbent producer may use financial derivatives to extract rent from a potential entrant. The incumbent can indeed sell insurance to a large buyer to commit himself to compete aggressively in the spot...

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Structural features of modern sectoral markets in Russia

Yusupova, A.T. - In: Journal "Region: Economics and Sociology" 4 (2009)

The paper proposes a new classification of industrial market players (firms) by indicators such as «concentration of firms» and «sustainability of leading market positions». This classiiication allows identifying the several types of markets which can be characterized by their market power...

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Competition among Middlemen When Buyers and Sellers can Trade Directly

Fingleton, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

This paper examines how the introduction of a direct trade alternative for buyers and sellers affects competition among middlemen. Direct trade makes middlemen’s supply and demand functions depend on both bid and ask prices, a feature we term interdependence. A simple model is used to...

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Creating a Public Good to Fight Monopolization: The Formation of Broadcast Music, Inc.

Kleit, Andrew - In: Review of Industrial Organization 19 (2001) 2, pp. 243-256

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