the effects of trade liberalisation on the firm-level profit-enhancing effects of mergers, under an oligopolistic …. However, the effects of freer trade on profits of the exporting countries are ambiguous and depend on the net gains in profit … enhance the profits is inversely proportional to the number of firms in the country. With a freer trade, the profit effect of …

. It is shown that offering fixed-fee pricing in addition to a non-linear usage-based pricing scheme is always profit … instance, in nascent information markets,firms may profit from low fixed-fee penetration pricing, but as these markets mature …

always profit-improving, and there may be markets in which a pure fixed-fee is optimal.Moreover, it is proved that the … information markets, firms are most likely to profit from lowfixed-fee penetration pricing, but as these markets mature, the … profitability and total welfare are analyzed. Strategic pricingresponses to changes in market characteristics are described, and the …