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Measuring market concentration in the Aegean ferry system
Goulielmos, Alexander M.; Sitzimis, Giannis - In: SPOUDAI - Journal of Economics and Business 62 (2012) 1/2, pp. 7-27
The paper calculates the concentration in 6 major routes of the Greek ferry system (2001-2010), important not only for international tourism, including Cruises, but also for the cohesion of the Greek space with EU. Worth noting is the consolidation of companies that took place, where from 25...
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Towards a Theory on Dominant Business Model Emergence of Marketplace Lending in Germany
Pur, Sabine; Huesig, Stefan; Schmidhammer, Christoph - In: Credit and Capital Markets – Kredit und Kapital 56 (2023) 1, pp. 63-102
In this paper, we analyze the business models of Germany's biggest lending platforms smava, auxmoney, and Lendico to identify a standard business model as a dominant design in this industry. We use a mixed method approach in which a case study at firm level is conducted to analyze and contrast...
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Softwareindustrie: Wettbewerb auch bei Paketangeboten möglich
Kooths, Stefan; von Schlippenbach, Vanessa - In: DIW Wochenbericht 75 (2008) 19, pp. 253-259
Produktbündel sind im Wirtschaftsleben allgegenwärtig. Sie können zum einen erhebliche Vorteile für Anbieter und Kunden aufweisen, zum anderen können sie aber auch als Instrument zur Behinderung des Wettbewerbs eingesetzt werden. Die ökonomische und rechtliche Würdigung ist daher sehr...
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Softwarestandards: Zwangslizenzen keine Patentlösung
Kooths, Stefan; Rühmkorf, Ronald - In: DIW Wochenbericht 76 (2009) 4, pp. 68-75
Das reibungslose Zusammenarbeiten von Programmen unterschiedlicher Hersteller ist für die Softwareindustrie von zentraler Bedeutung. Standards für Dokumentenformate, Kommunikationsprotokolle und Programmschnittstellen sichern die Interoperabilität von Systemen. Wettbewerbspolitisch stellen...
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Competitiveness in the European consolidated banking sector after the 2008 financial crisis
Klutse, Senanu Kwasi - In: Review of Economic Perspectives 20 (2020) 4, pp. 431-444
The constitutional conception of market integration within the European Union entails creating a level playing field for competition in the consolidated banking sector. The financial crisis of 2008 brought with it the need to proceed with care as it rolled back the gains of improving competitive...
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Partial price discrimination by an upstream monopolist
Bru, Lluís; Faulí-Oller, Ramon; Sandonís, Joel - In: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 2 (2011) 2, pp. 217-231
We analyze third degree price discrimination by an upstream monopolist to a continuum of heterogeneous downstream firms …. The novelty of our approach is to recognize that customizing prices may be costly. As a consequence, partial price … efficient firms are charged a uniform price. The extreme cases of complete price discrimination and uniform price arise in our …
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The European Natural Gas Market: Imports to Rise Considerably
Engerer, Hella; Horn, Manfred - In: Weekly Report 5 (2009) 18, pp. 122-129
Since the late 1990s, natural gas has been the second most important source of energy in the European Union after oil. Current forecasts predict that the demand for natural gas will continue to rise over the long term. As the production of natural gas in the EU has already passed its peak and...
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Big Data aus wettbewerblicher Sicht: Analysen und Berichte
Dewenter, Ralf; Lüth, Hendrik - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 96 (2016) 9, pp. 648-654
Geschäftsmodelle der digitalen Ökonomie basieren auf dem Angebot von Inhalten und Diensten, die von den Kunden teilweise mit personenbezogenen Informationen bezahlt werden. Vorteile entstehen, weil dies zu einer effizienteren Bereitstellung von Gütern und Dienstleistungen führen kann....
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Online trade platforms: Hosting, selling, or both?
Anderson, Simon; Bedre-Defolie, Özlem - In: International Journal of Industrial Organization 84 (2022), pp. 1-15
sellers via its commission and own product price. We also review the recent literature to highlight other channels via which …
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Two extensions of consumer surplus
Corchón, Luis C.; Torregrosa-Montaner, Ramón J. - In: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 13 (2022) 3, pp. 557-579
We study consumer surplus in a single market when (a) there is a lower bound in the consumption of the outside good and (b) the weights in the social welfare function given to consumers and firms are different. We assume quasilinear utility. When the lower bound constraint on the consumption of...
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