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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...
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competition by a competitive fringe that produces low quality. We show that the brand manufacturer optimally provides a decoy good …
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competition by a competitive fringe that produces low quality. We show that the brand manufacturer optimally provides a decoy good …
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innovation intensity to escape competition. The U-shaped relation is more pronounced in industries where firms compete in …
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This paper investigates the impact of technical progress on the relationship between competition an investment. Using a … model of oligopoly competition with di¤erentiated products where firms invest to reduce their marginal cost of production, I … competition that maximizes investment of the industry. This feature holds also for consumer surplus and Welfare. In the model …
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Antitrust scholars have argued that exclusive contracts have anticompetitive, or at best neutral effects, if no efficiencies are generated. In contrast, this paper shows that exclusive contracts can have procompetitive effects, provided buyers are imperfect downstream competitors and contract...
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pricing algorithms that allow for high-frequency price changes. What are the implications for price competition? We develop a … model of price competition where firms can differ in pricing frequency and choose algorithms that autonomously react to …
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This study investigates the profitability of a decrease in the degree of product differentiation. We consider a vertical duopoly with linear tariffs and find that both downstream firms can increase their profit after a decrease in the degree of product differentiation if each downstream firm...
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This paper investigates the relationship between technical progress, competition, and the impact on consumer's surplus …
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have achieved the right result for the right reason. In a simple model reflecting the weak competition between the drugs …
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