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The competition effect in business cycles

Lewis, Vivien; Stevens, Arnoud - 2012

the "competition effect", by which desired price markups and inflation decrease when entry rises. We find that a 1 percent … increase in the number of competitors lowers desired markups by 0.18 percent. Most of the cyclical variability in inflation is … driven by markup fluctuations due to sticky prices or exogenous shocks rather than endogenous changes in desired markups. …

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Asymmetry of Subscriber-Base, Switching Cost, and Anti-Competitiveness of Bundling

Rhee, Sangkyu - 2011

In general, bundles are supplied with discount. Thus bundles are pro-competitive in view of increasing consumers' welfare. On the other hand, bundles are anti-competitive because of leveraging market power from dominant tying-good market to competitive tied-good market, intensifying entry...

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Abusive Global Platform Dominance or Competition on the Merits?

Chirita, Anca D. - 2021

Contrary to mainstream opinion, suggesting that dominant online platforms compete on their own merits and that their abuse of the large-scale accumulation of data should fall under data or privacy laws, this article argues that competition law should investigate whether global platform...

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Antitrust Analysis of Sports Leagues

Pelnar, Gregory J. - 2009

I present an overview of the antitrust literature on sports leagues, with particular emphasis on the National Collegiate Athletic Association, the National Football League, Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association, and the National Hockey League, as well as on sanctioning...

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Multisided Platforms, Dynamic Competition, and the Assessment of Market Power for Internet-Based Firms

Evans, David S. - 2016

Market power on each side of a multisided platform, whether in the form of increasing prices or decreasing quality, is constrained by the risk of losing sales on the other sides. That tends to weaken market power on each side and encourages platforms to keep prices lower and quality higher than...

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Aggregate markup and its impact on income inequality : country panel evidence

Lee, Hyungsuk; Lee, Junsang - In: International economic journal 37 (2023) 3, pp. 387-400

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International trade and corporate market power

Gonzalez-Garcia, Jesus; Yang, Yuanchen - 2020

in the manufacturing and ICT sectors, private sector firms, and firms with higher initial markups. Firms in sub …-Saharan Africa tend to experience signficantly lower markups after allowing greater trade integration. The effects of trade …

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Competition, competitiveness and growth in Sub-Saharan Africa

Chérif, Réda; Dhungana, Sandesh; Fang, Xiangming; … - 2020

Does greater product market competition improve external competitiveness and growth? This paper examines this question by using country-and firm-level data for a sample of 39 sub-Saharan African countries over 2000-17, as well as other emerging market economies and developing countries, and...

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Global declining competition

Villegas-Sanchez, Carolina; Díez, Federico; Fan, Jiayue - 2019

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Mergers and market power : evidence from rivals' responses in European markets

Stiebale, Joel; Szücs, Florian - 2019

This paper analyzes the effects of mergers and acquisitions on the markups of non-merging rival firms across a broad … production functions, we estimate markups as a measure of market power. Our results indicate that rivals significantly increase … their markups after mergers relative to a matched control group. Consistent with increases in market power, the effects are …

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