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Multisided markets and platform dominance

Alleman, James H.; Baranes, Edmond; Rappoport, Paul N. - 2019

The internet giants - Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google, among others - have transformed society with both positive and negative effects. The negative effects have been stark. There have been huge disruptions caused by e-commerce. More recently, subtler, but even more serious negative effects...

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Impact of technical progress on the relationship between competition and investment

Jeanjean, François - 2018

This paper investigates the impact of technical progress on the relationship between competition an investment. Using a model of oligopoly competition with di¤erentiated products where firms invest to reduce their marginal cost of production, I find that technical progress, which increases the...

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Start-up acquisitions and innovation strategies

Letina, Igor; Schmutzler, Armin; Seibel, Regina - 2020

This paper provides a theory of strategic innovation project choice by incumbents and start-ups. We apply this theory … innovations. Furthermore, it leads to strategic duplication of the entrant's innovation by the incumbent. These negative … innovation effects of restrictive acquisition policy have to be weighed against the pro-competitive effects of preserving …

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Killer acquisitions and beyond : policy effects on innovation strategies

Letina, Igor; Schmutzler, Armin; Seibel, Regina - 2021 - This version: August 2020, first version: February 2020

This paper provides a theory of strategic innovation project choice by incumbents and start-ups. We show that … prohibiting killer acquisitions strictly reduces the variety of innovation projects. By contrast, we find that prohibiting other … acquisitions only has a weakly negative innovation effect, and we provide conditions under which the effect is zero. Furthermore …

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Mergers and the markups of rival firms : evidence from European markets

Stiebale, Joel; Szücs, Florian - 2019 - This draft: March 1, 2019

This paper analyzes the effects of mergers on markups of non-merging rival firms in narrowly defined markets. Combining data from the European Commission’s market assessments in merger decisions with production data, we use recent methodological advances in the estimation of production...

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Bork's hoax : antitrust and the internet market

Alleman, James H. - 2021

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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Optimal number of firms in the wireless markets

Jeanjean, François; Houngbonon, Georges Vivien - 2015 - Preliminary version

In this paper, we design a theoretical model to analyze the impact of the number of firms on investment in the wireless communications industry. Our model extends the Salop's framework by introducing investment in quality that either reduces the marginal cost of production or shifts the...

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Optimal market structure in the mobile industry

Jeanjean, François; Houngbonon, Georges Vivien - 2016

The optimal market structure in the mobile industry is an important topic in the mobile industry. In this paper, we use two theoretical frameworks and a structural estimation approach to assess the effects of market structure on consumer surplus in symmetric mobile markets. When mobile services...

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My precious! The location and diffusion of scientific research : evidence from the synchrotron Diamond Light Source

Helmers, Christian; Overman, Henry G. - 2013

use both academic publications and patent data to trace the geographical distribution of related knowledge and innovation …

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Klarl, Torben - 2011 - This version: June 6, 2011

entrepreneurial activity in innovation and regional growth within a spatial semi-endogenous growth model in the spirit of Jones (1995 …

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