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Enforcement of European Competition Policy - Impact on Competition and Efficiency

Klein, Gordon J.; Günster, Andrea - 2013

The study analyzes the impact of European antitrust enforcement on industry performance measured as competition intensity (Price Cost Margin) and productivity (labor productivity and distance to the frontier). For a panel of OECD countries on the industry level since 1988, we estimate the impact...

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Forward trading and collusion of firms in volatile markets

Aichele, Markus F. - 2012

Assuming deterministic demand Liski and Montero (2006) show that forward trading is able to facilitate collusion. We present a more concise model incorporating the main reason for forward trading: Uncertainty. In general, fl uctuations make collusion harder to sustain (Rotemberg and Saloner,...

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Remedies vs. Extreme Options in Merger Control

Dertwinkel-Kalt, Markus; Wey, Christian - 2014

We investigate how remedies in merger control affect information acquisition by an antitrust agency. We identify conditions under which an ''extreme options'' regime which does not allow for remedies improves information acquisition by the agency which increases consumer surplus. The legislator...

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Factors of FTTH deployment in Japan: A panel data analysis

Akematsu, Yuji; Shinohara, Sobee; Tsuji, Masatsugu - 2012

In accordance with the development of broadband services, interests are focused on the deployment of optical fiber and various reports and researches are published, including Next Generation Connectivity by the Berkman Center, Harvard University, and Indicators of Broadband Coverage by OECD....

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Credit concentration of Brazilian rural activities from 2000 to 2008

Spolador, Humberto Francisco Silva; De Souza Lima, … - 2010

This paper aims to analyze the degree of concentration of loans allocated to agricultural and livestock activities in …

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Long-term processes of regional concentration and dispersion - fuzzy evidence for Western Germany

Otto, Anne; Fuchs, Michaela; Dauth, Wolfgang - 2010

The description of geographical concentration and the search for its causes is at the focus of many studies. However … relationships. This paper aims at filling this gap. We measure concentration in Western Germany for the time period from 1986 to … 2006 with the Ellison-Glaeser index (EGI). In order to account for concentration processes at various levels, we …

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Regional concentration of knowledge intensive business services in Europe

Vence, Xavier; Gonzalez, Manuel - 2010

the economic activity, the higher the concentration level of the activity. …

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Regional Dynamics of Insurances in Romania

Constantinescu, Dan; Rotaru, Constantin; Jula, … - 2010

In the paper we analyze the economic, social, cultural, institutional and political factors that determine regional demand for services like "insurance". As economic factors, we analyze the impact of non-governmental credit over the insurance market. Development of an econometric model is based...

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Innovation, income and regional development: An assessment of the importance of differences in regional potentials

Cornett, Andreas P.; Sørensen, Nils Karl - 2016

The purpose of the current paper is to analyze the impact of regional potentials on the process of growth. How are different types of regions (e.g. medium sized [city] regions, rural regions, urban regions or metropolitan and high-tech cluster regions) affected by improved performance, and to...

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The index construction of cross-media concentration in the digital era: A comparative study

Tseng, Kuo-Feng - 2014

requires further discussion. The KEK, the index of cross-media concentration used in German, is applied to examine the degree … of multiple market concentration. However, this study found that for most countries they did not analyzed M&A cases by …

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