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Happily ever after? - vertical and horizontal mergers in the U.S. media industry
Stöhr, Annika; Noskova, Victoriia; Kunz-Kaltenhäuser, … - 2019
This paper provides an economic analysis of recent vertical and horizontal mergers in the U.S. industry for audiovisual media content, including the AT&T-Time Warner and the Disney-Fox mergers. Using a theory-driven approach, we examine economic effects of these types of mergers on market...
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The Measure and Regulation of Competition in Telecommunications Markets
Boyer, Marcel - 2006
I claim that the urgently needed telecommunications regulatory reform must rest on three specific principles or … integrity of the telecommunications networks in Canada. Third, the design of non predatory pricing rules (price floors) through … full cost sharing capable of fostering the emergence of a more competitive telecommunications industry, even if such non …
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Merger and entry-license tax
Cato, Susumu; Matsumura, Toshihiro - In: Economics Letters 119 (2013) 1, pp. 11-13
This paper investigates how horizontal mergers affect the optimal entry barrier (tax) in the presence of free entry and exit. We show that the government should raise the entry tax when a merger reduces the total number of firms entering.
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The battle of YouTube, TV and Netflix: an empirical analysis of competition in audiovisual media markets
Budzinski, Oliver; Gaenssle, Sophia; … - In: SN Business & Economics 1 (2021) 9
The world of audiovisual online markets is rapidly changing. Not long ago, it was dominated by linear television, transmitted terrestrially, through cable networks or via satellite. Recently, streaming services such as Netflix, YouTube, Amazon Prime and others have emerged as new suppliers of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014501899
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Corporate Self-Regulation vs. Ex-Ante Regulation of Network Access: A Model of the German Gas Sector
Meran, Georg; Hirschhausen, Christian von - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004
This paper compares the outcomes of corporate self-regulation and traditional ex-ante regulation of network access to monopolistic bottlenecks. In the model of self-regulation, the domestic gas supplier and network owner and the monopsonistic gas customer fix quantities and the network access...
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New competition in telecommunications markets : regulatory pricing principles
Bijl, Paul de; Peitz, Martin - 2002
Launching and stimulating competition in telecommunications markets is an important policy goal. It contains two …
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Multisided markets and platform dominance
Alleman, James H.; Baranes, Edmond; Rappoport, Paul N. - 2019
The internet giants - Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google, among others - have transformed society with both positive and negative effects. The negative effects have been stark. There have been huge disruptions caused by e-commerce. More recently, subtler, but even more serious negative effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012151937
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Digital Platforms : Does Promoting Competitors Promote Competition?
Lambin, Xavier - 2019
Digital platforms frequently refer their users to competitors. We show that these references induce a business-sharing effect that may relax competition for users, resulting in lower quality of content. More surprisingly, user surplus may also decrease as the quality effect may overwhelm the...
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Bork's hoax : antitrust and the internet market
Alleman, James H. - 2021
Robert Bork's Antitrust Paradox (1978) has been justification for lack of antitrust behavior for over four decades. His test essentially asks if consumers are harmed by the pricing practices of the firm in the market in which they purchase the good or service. Even if these firms are monopoly or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012804859
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Competition before Sunset : The Case of the Finnish ATM Market
Kopsakangas-Savolainen, Maria - 2015
We build a simple model to study service fee competition between an incumbent and an independent ATM deployer, and its optimal regulation. We use the model to analyze an actual regulation of such a market by competition authorities in Finland. We find that socially optimal first-best fees would...
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