Showing 1 - 10 of 512
. -- dominant firm ; monopoly with fringe ; sequential moves …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008664501
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012948819
The concepts of rentiership and intellectual monopoly have gained increased prominence in discussions about the … rentiership and intellectual monopoly using firm-level financial data. The absence of such work, we argue, is symptomatic of … of rent and intellectual monopoly, we develop a dynamic framework for analyzing the processes of rentierization and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014282349
In the second direct challenge to the NCAA's amateurism rules, the Northern District of California court rejected an attempt by the NCAA and 11 conferences to dismiss claims that defendants violated antitrust law by “conspiring to impose an artificial ceiling on the scholarships and benefits...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012918266
In this paper, we describe the development and current status of anti-manipulation rules as they apply to wholesale electricity and natural gas markets in the United States and the European Union, including the institutions that are responsible for overseeing these rules. We then compare and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013091121
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003958724
We study the offering of discretionary services, those for which longer processing times yield higher quality, but also create more system congestion. Facing delay-sensitive customers that are heterogeneous in quality sensitivity, firms offer a service line (i.e., a menu of service variants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011756615
In this paper, which is the third installment of the author´s trilogy on margin loan pricing, we analyze 1367 monthly observations of the U.S. broker call money rate, e.g., the interest rate at which stockbrokers can borrow to fund their margin loans to retail clients. We describe the basic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012150532
When organizations in technology industries attempt to advance their innovative activities, they must be cognizant of the intellectual property rights of others. Patent thickets can thwart ongoing innovation, however, and throughout the last 150 years, firms have stumbled into a number of patent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012915978
In a review of recent antitrust measures undertaken by the Biden Administration, this paper observes that antitrust theory and policy remains one decade behind in preempting and preventing the many harms from consolidation in healthcare markets. A version of of this article was delivered in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014344126