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This paper considers a vertically separated industry with an upstream monopolist who supplies an essential input to two downstream Cournot firms. This situation is relevant to a number of sectors, including the telecommunications industry where trunk operators must have access to the local...
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The problem of a monopolist firm that supplies an essential input to other firms that compete in the final downstream market is crucial in many utility industries that use a network. When downstream firms have different degrees of efficiency, then it could be feasible to charge them different...
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This paper provides causal evidence for the impact of changes in regulation on shareholder value. Using the 2016 US … economic mechanisms through which investors expected firms to benefit from de-regulation, I find that the positive effect on … shareholders' wealth is primarily driven by ex-ante high growth firms. Furthermore, in line with the public choice theory of …
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We develop a model of rational bubbles based on the assumptions of unknown market liquidity and limited liability of traders. In a bubble, the price of an asset rises dynamically above its steady-state value, justified by rational expectations about future price developments. The larger the...
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We investigate the effects of different regulatory policies directed towards high-frequency trading (HFT) through an agent-based model of a limit order book able to generate flash crashes as the result of the interactions between low- and high-frequency (HF) traders. We analyze the impact of the...
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We investigate the impact of high-frequency trading (HFT) on market quality and investor welfare using a general limit order book model. We find that while the presence of HFT always improves market quality under symmetric information, under asymmetric information this is the case only if...
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