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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 …
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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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The model of perfect competition is one of the most famous, most important, and most misunderstood concepts in … economics. Rather than aiming to be a full-blown model of real-world competitive markets, the perfect competition model isolates … only feature of market competition, but it plays a central role regarding to its virtues, and understanding the working …
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We consider market dynamics in a reduced form model. In the simplest version, there are two investors and several small noninvesting firms. In each period, one investor can acquire a small firm, the other investor decides about market entry. After that all firms play an oligopoly game. We derive...
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, we consider symmetric Cournot competition and show that the endogenous level of CSR is positive for any given number of …
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, we consider symmetric Cournot competition and show that the endogenous level of CSR is positive for any given number of …
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We consider market dynamics in a reduced form model. In the simplest version, there are two investors and several small non-investing firms. In each period, one investor can acquire a small firm, the other investor decides about market entry. After that all firms play an oligopoly game. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014107157
In this paper we study price competition, equilibrium market configurations and entry when firms compete in vertically …-quality duopolist is always pushed out. We then allow for competition between complements on both sides of the market: one of the …
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This paper models competition between two firms, which provide broadband Internet access in regional markets with … intensifies competition in all regions. We show that the cost-reducing potential of investments dominates the strategic effect …: Higher access fees increase facility-based competition, decrease retail prices and increase total demand. -- Broadband access …
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forms of demand and retail competition. Whether countervailing buyer power arises, in the form of lower negotiated prices …
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