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Bork's hoax : antitrust and the internet market

Alleman, James H. - 2021

good or service. Even if these firms are monopoly or oligopolies in their fields with huge economic rents, if they pass …

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Multisided markets and platform dominance

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

market, monopoly pricing is well defined - as well as tests for predatory behavior; not so with multisided markets. Since the … markets for their potential for determining consumers' harm and welfare effects, as well as defining monopoly and predatory …

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Third-degree price discrimination in oligopoly when markets are covered

Dertwinkel-Kalt, Markus; Wey, Christian - 2021

We analyze oligopolistic third-degree price discrimination relative to uniform pricing when markets are always covered. Pricing equilibria are critically determined by supply-side features such as the number of firms and their marginal cost differences. It follows that each firm's Lerner index...

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Multi-product pricing and minimum resale price maintenance

Dertwinkel-Kalt, Markus; Wey, Christian - 2021

We provide a novel explanation for why manufacturers want to enforce a minimum resale price (min RPM) on retailers. A manufacturer sells her good via a multi-product retailer to final consumers by charging a linear wholesale price. The manufacturer then maximizes her profit through min RPM...

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Assessing the market power of digital platforms : Paper prepared for presentation at the International Telecommunications Society (ITS) Biennial Conference Gothenburg, Sweden, June...

Prado, Tiago S. - 2021

In this conceptual paper, I propose a framework for measuring the market power of digital platforms. The rise of big technology companies that act both as intermediary platforms and providers of services and goods in several markets has heightened concerns about potential economic harms brought...

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Dynamic monopoly with demand delay

Matsumoto, Akio; Nakayama, Keiko - 2014

make an optimal decision of price and output to maximize its profit and realize it. As a result, the text-book monopoly …Implicit in the text-book monopoly is an assumption of complete and instantaneous information or knowledge available to … economic agents goes too far. In reality the monopolist is boundedly rational and adjusts its price and output as a function of …

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The information paradox in a monopolist's credence goods market

Jost, Peter-J.; Reik, Steffen; Ressi, Anna - 2019

Credence goods markets, such as those for car repairs and medical treatments, are generally characterized by an ex-ante and ex-post information asymmetry between the uninformed buyer and the informed seller. Previous literature demonstrates that efficiency and fraud in a monopolist credence...

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Monopoly in real life : the housing market, finance and inequality

Baur, Dirk G. - 2019

This paper uses a simple model based on the board game Monopoly to analyze the drivers of house prices and wealth …

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Analysis of the plant sector in Giurgiu county in the period 2015-2019 : gaps towards the Sud-Muntemia region

Giucă, Andreea-Daniela - In: Agrarian economy and rural development : realities and …, (pp. 177-182). 2020

The geographical location of the Sud-Muntenia region and its relief ensure favorable natural conditions for vegetable crops, especially those in the cereals category, determining the predominantly agrarian character of the region, over 70% of the total area of the region is agricultural area....

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Incorporating home and host country economic growth rates in predicting the impact of MNEs' strategic flexibility on local economies

Hejazi, Walid; Tang, Jianmin; Wang, Weimin - In: Megatrends in International Business : Examining the …, (pp. 183-205). 2022

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