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courts' underlying economic paradigm regarding the assessment of monopoly power in 'New Economy Network Markets' was strongly … Microsoft's monopoly as it was claimed by the courts within their 'applications barrier to entry' theory. I claim that current …
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This article looks at the commonalities and disparities in the rules against single-firm market abuses in the US and in the EU and their enforcement. Despite they target the same type of business behaviour, the US and the EU have always followed divergent paths. This article will examine...
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Infrastructure costs in the United States are high and rising. The procurement process is one potential cost driver. In … this paper we conduct a survey of procurement practices across the 50 states. We survey both employees at each state … able to create a new dataset of procurement rules and practices across the U.S. and understand what actors on the ground …
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We incorporate previously omitted controls of external conditions in transportation and commodity markets into Porter's (1983) analysis of industry demand, conduct and stability of the JEC railroad cartel. We estimate the equilibrium price path, non-parametrically, and find that the reaction of...
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Using evidence from recent work on truckers and disaggregated older data prior researchers did not have, we revisit a classic topic and find some new answers. We focus on differentials in average annual earnings at the firm level among mileage-paid over-the-road tractor-trailer drivers ("road...
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This paper is motivated by the US freight railroad industry, which is characterized by a major restructuring over the last 30 years. In particular, the number of active firms decreased from 26 in 1978 to seven in 2006 due to several takeover waves. The empirical focus concerns the estimation of...
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