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Abstract This paper is concerned with the question of how to deal with Google Shopping’s position on online markets in order to prevent harm to public welfare. From the perspective of sellers and buyers of goods and services in Germany, Google can be seen as a gatekeeper to the Internet and...
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Mineralölunternehmen auf lokalen Märkten Marktmacht ausüben. Die häufig geäußerte Vermutung, daß aufgrund einer relativ hohen Konzentration … auf Bundesebene und einer vielfach noch höheren regionalen bzw. lokalen Konzentration Mineralölfirmen Marktmacht ausüben …
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leverage market power, but there is no theory on the ‚information power‘ of search engines. The concept of ‚search neutrality …
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We describe a classroom experiment that illustrates the concepts of market power and the Lerner Index. Students are organized in groups, each making a decision for a monopolist. Monopolists face different (unknown) demand curves, each with a different (constant) elasticity. Through repetition,...
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Summary This paper expands the empirical analysis of hysteresis in trade in two directions. First, it uses disaggregate data for exports from Germany to the U.S. to minimise aggregation problems. Second, it introduces a new non-linear model to test for the non-linear parameter. The model is...
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We present a perfect Nash equilibrium in which the creator of a work, motivated by economic considerations, selectively enforces her own copyright. In fact, the creator may not only permit, but may strategically promote infringement of the copyright, thereby participating indirectly in predatory...
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The pro-competitive effects of international trade in the presence of monopoly, and the deleterious effects of … simulation model for classroom use, built in Excel, that is designed to explore the effect of international trade on a monopoly …, and how the effects of protecting the monopoly may differ depending on whether a tariff or a quota is chosen. We describe …
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for undergraduate and graduate students. After explaining the functioning of a simple monopoly, and discussing first and …
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Capacity constraints on production have major effects on a standard monopoly, a monopoly that price discriminates … between two submarkets, and a monopoly that sells in two submarkets and faces a price control in only one.  …
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Abstract The purpose of this study is to address the ambiguities in the application of anti-trust regulations to the nonprofit sector. We first survey policy tools and their diverse historical usage in nonprofit and mixed markets, specifically in professional associations, hospitals, and...
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