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Robert Bork's Antitrust Paradox (1978) has been justification for lack of antitrust behavior for over four decades. His test essentially asks if consumers are harmed by the pricing practices of the firm in the market in which they purchase the good or service. Even if these firms are monopoly or...
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costs to the products being advertised, - Elimination (or non-emergence) of competition in markets to the products being …
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We investigate the trade-off between financial stability and competition policy by focusing on the merger of ABN AMRO … products using a random-coefficients logit model. On the supply side we assume Bertrand Nash competition in a multiproduct …
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The relationship between technical progress and price competition is a controversial issue in economics. This paper … highlights the fact that investment in technical progress is an authentic type of competition which benefits the consumers rather … than the industry. This type of competition exists when the potential for technical progress, which can be incorporated by …
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incentives are positively related to the potential for technical progress. They also depend on market structure, competition …. As a result, the maximum consumer surplus as well as welfare occurs under imperfect competition and not under perfect … competition. …
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increasing offshoring activity increases competition in the final goods market, leading to a progressive vertical disintegration … of the supply chains. Initially, the firms that decide to explore offshoring potential choose integration. As competition … fully domestic supply chains, the increasing competition promotes a sequential disintegration of the domestic intermediate …
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summarized as follows: (1) deregulations by government, such as MNP (Mobile Number Portability) and collocation; (2) competition …
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targeted by pro-competitive remedies, either under a competition policy framework or under a regulatory regime, remain highly … have limited impact in promoting competition in digital markets. I then propose a new set of tools aimed to identify the …
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Does co-investment enhance fiber to the home (FTTH) coverage, adoption and competition? We combine several French … insert the correction term derived from the entry model in the FTTH coverage (adoption, competition) regression to correct … FTTH adoption during the 2015-2018 study period and also a more intense competition as shown through the decrease in Orange …
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We examine the impact of self-learning Artificial Intelligence (AI) on firm competition in a growth model with … market concentration, firm competition, firm productivity and income inequality. We discuss potential policy interventions … such as a profit tax or the modernization of competition and merger laws to prevent a significant increase in market …
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