Showing 1 - 10 of 2,041
Pricing Game - to identify when competition between communications networks is a sustainable market outcome. The Network … results of The Network Pricing Game show that the sustainability of competition between networks is influenced by initial … that policy must be designed to meet market conditions. In some markets, competition will result without regulation. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014052649
A cartel is socially not desirable. But is it a normative problem? And has merger control reason to be concerned about tacit collusion? Neither is evident once one has seen that the members of a cartel face a problem of strategic interaction. It is routinely analysed in terms of game theory....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014058244
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
-sharing effect that may relax competition for users, resulting in lower quality of content. More surprisingly, user surplus may also … anti-competitive effect while preserving the diversity effect. When there is competition among third parties, interplatform …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861485
Recent merger decisions by competition authorities have revived the debate on the relationship between competition and … competition assessment of the impact of a merger on dynamic competition, including its effects on innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012932579
economic issues of competition on dominant platforms, using Amazon as a case study. The paper examines the role of dominant … recommendations to adapt competition law to the challenges of the digital economy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013233108
generalise the approach and analyse the behaviour of a competition authority, which attaches different weights to the firms' and … restrictions also depends on the competition authority's instruments. The essential insights continue to apply if firms are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013257050
This paper investigates the competition between payment card issuers in an artificial payment card market. In the … market leads to the result that more competitors do actually reduce competition for customers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013148494
This article provides an overview of the competitive issues surrounding online platforms. The general theme is that while much has been made of the structural features of online platforms there is little hard evidence that these are durable monopolies. Nonetheless, there are concerns about the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321957
This article extends antitrust analysis to two-sided markets in which a virtual monopolist competes with local bricks-and-mortar dealers. The discussion examines the market power of an Internet market maker as well as an Internet matchmaker. The analysis shows that equilibrium in a two-sided...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014048358