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Market delineation is a fundamental tool in modern antitrust analysis. However, the definition of relevant markets can be very difficult in practice. This preliminary draft applies a new methodology combining a simple price correlation test with hierarchical clustering -a method known from...
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publication of the network access charges for each network supplier, faciliated or inhibited competition. …
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The Obama administration has repeatedly identified the large-scale build-out of clean, renewable energy infrastructure as a key priority of the United States. The President's calls for a cleaner energy economy are often accompanied by references to other industrialized countries such as Germany,...
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This paper explores the relation between the regulation of monopolistic upstream prices and the incentives of a vertically integrated input monopolist to discriminate third parties on the downstream market. Currently, this is an issue in network industries like telecommunications, electricity...
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; market entry ; forward integration ; vertical integration ; market foreclosure …
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This paper explores the relation between the regulation of monopolistic upstream prices and the incentives of a vertically integrated input monopolist to discriminate third parties on the downstream market. Currently, this is an issue in network industries like telecommunications, electricity...
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products and frequently use multiple or exclusive rebate contracts to exercise market power. Based on a Hotelling model of … differentiation, we find that firms clearly prefer multiple over exclusive rebate contracts. Contrary, there exists no rebate form … that per se lowers total costs for the members of the GPOs or maximizes total welfare. -- GPOs ; Rebate Contracts …
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We study sequential bargaining between two unions and a single firm. Parties bargain bilaterally and efficiently (over … wage and employment). The unions' workforces can be substitutable ("tariff competition") or complementary ("tariff …
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