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This thesis strives to offer new insights in two main areas. First, in the well-researched domain of payment cards chapters 2 and 3 investigate an aspect that has hitherto been scantly examined, namely, the fact that merchant usage fees differ substantially among merchant sectors. Additionally,...
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questions:(1) How does the existing antitrust-law in the United States, Germany, and the European Union affect the behavior of … relevant interestgroups? (2) Is it possible to improve the efficiency of the existing antitrust-laws in Germany and in the EU … by introducing an privat action clause comparable to the US-antitrust-laws? …
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Die Internationalisierung der Wettbewerbspolitik wird unter dem Aspekt untersucht, wie Staaten ihre wettbewerbspolitischen Maßnahmen im internationalen Handel strategisch ausnutzen können. In Analogie zur strategischen Handelspolitik werden die unilateral gesetzten Wettbewerbspolitiken mit der...
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The price variable is among the most powerful instruments in the arsenal of the executives to achieve entry deterrence objectives. There are two main pricing strategies that firms may use to defend against a competitive market entry. The first of these options, limit pricing (or entry deterring...
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This dissertation contains three chapters. It analyzes a market where firms can choose whether or not to publicly post their prices. Price posting rewards a firm by reducing search costs for customers and thus attracting more demand, at the risk of triggering more direct price competition.In the...
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Many studies have shown a relationship between antidumping duty and collusion. These studies, however, only focus on … collusion in output (downstream) market, i.e. collusion between import competing firms and exporters, or among import competing … collusion among the exporters in Thai shrimp market at 1 % significant level. …
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