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Trouble in paradise: Will technocrats review global merger forever?

Evenett, Simon J. - In: CESifo Forum 7 (2006) 1, pp. 27-33

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Competition and the Reference Pricing Scheme for pharmaceuticals

Ghislandi, Simone - In: Journal of Health Economics 30 (2011) 6, pp. 1137-1149

By introducing n (1) firms with infinite cross-price elasticity (i.e. generic drugs), we explore the effects of competition on the optimal pricing strategies under a Reference Pricing Scheme (RPS). A two-stage model repeated infinite number of times is presented. When stage 1 is competitive, the...

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Econometrics of First Price Auctions: a Survey of the Theoretical and Applied Literature

Gabrielli, Florencia - In: Económica 60 (2014) January-December, pp. 77-118

structural approach is a framework to analyze auction data in which theory and econometrics are closely related. There are three …

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Shrouded Transaction Costs

Bourguignon, Hélène; Gomes, Renato; Tirole, Jean - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

The proliferation of new payment methods on the Internet rekindles the old and unsettled debate about merchants’ incentive and ability to differentiate price according to payment choice. This paper develops an imperfect-information framework for the analysis of platform and social regulation...

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Bundling in Telecommunications

Garcéa-Mariñoso, Begoña; Martinez-Giralt, Xavier; … - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2008

The paper offers an overview of the literature on bundling in the telecommunications sector and its application in the Spanish market. We argue that the use of bundling in the provision of services is associated to technological reasons. Therefore, there appears no need to regulate bundling...

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Imperfect Competition in Selection Markets

Mahoney, Neale; Weyl, E. Glen - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

show that in selection markets four principles of the United States Horizontal Merger Guidelines are often reversed. …

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Demand estimation with selection bias: A dynamic game approach with an application to the US railroad industry

Coublucq, Daniel - Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), … - 2013

This paper is motivated by the US freight railroad industry, which is characterized by a major restructuring over the … last 30 years. In particular, the number of active firms decreased from 26 in 1978 to seven in 2006 due to several takeover … consumer surplus. The restructuring of this industry involves significant exit and takeovers. This implies that the data is …

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An Estimation of Consumer Benefits From the Public Campaign To Lower Cereal Prices

Cotterill, Ronald W.; Franklin, Andrew W. - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, … - 1998

Using monthly IRI scanner data for January 1993 to March 1998, cereal prices declined even after adjusting for trade promotions and reduced manufacturer coupons during the public campaign in 1995 and early 1996, as well as after the industry's announced shelf price reductions in Spring 1996. The...

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Liberalisation of the Russian power sector

Kennedy, David - European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) - 2002

: restructuring of regional energos and large generating companies; restructuring of transmission and system operation; the mechanism … for introducing paper is that the restructuring of energos should not create companies with market power. Ideally, local …

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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

shows that any country can embark on radical power sector restructuring irrespective of reform progress in the wider economy. …

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