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Assessing the Market Power of Digital Platforms
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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Empaquetamiento e incentivos para mejoras en calidad
Correa, Alexander - In: Revista de Métodos Cuantitativos para la Economía y … 30 (2020), pp. 163-195
This study presents the competition beyond a single product market where a multi-product firm competes with monoproduct rivals through the use of different bundling strategies that impact the firms' incentives to make quality improvements in different ways. The pure bundling strategy can make...
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With whom to merge?: A tale of the Spanish banking deregulation process
Lozano Vivas, Ana; Meléndez-Jiménez, Miguel A.; … - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 2 (2011) 2, pp. 159-184
We propose a spatial competition model to study banks’ strategic responses to the asymmetric Spanish geographic deregulation process. We find that once the geographic deregulation process finishes, inter-regional mergers between savings banks are optimal whenever the economies of scale...
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Competition before Sunset : The Case of the Finnish ATM Market
Kopsakangas-Savolainen, Maria - 2015
optimal regulation. We use the model to analyze an actual regulation of such a market by competition authorities in Finland … Ramsey regulation. While the Finnish regulation pushes the foreign fee downwards towards its socially optimal level, the … regulated fees are likely to remain too high from the welfare point of view. In contrast with the actual regulation, it would be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013036293
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Empaquetamiento e incentivos para mejoras en calidad
Correa, Alexander - In: Revista de métodos cuantitativos para la economía y … 30 (2020), pp. 163-195
This study presents the competition beyond a single product market where a multi-product firm competes with monoproduct rivals through the use of different bundling strategies that impact the firms' incentives to make quality improvements in different ways. The pure bundling strategy can make...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012436978
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Downstream Price-Cap Regulation and Upstream Market Power
Reitzes, James D. - 2005
service) is subject to regulation. In these industries, regulators are confronted with the potential exercise of market power … by the upstream affiliate when choosing the optimal form of downstream regulation. This paper finds that downstream … regulation in the form of price caps can eliminate the exercise of market power by the regulated firm's upstream affiliate. With …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014061584
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Financial and Regulatory Assessment of Mobile Network Sharing as a Trigger of Cost Efficient 5G Rollout in CEE
Földes, Gábor - 2022
Telecommunication sector faces to parallel investments into both fiber and 5G, however due to monetization challenges, return on investments often lag behind normal profit expectations. Co-investment, like mobile network sharing can promote cost efficiency, however cooperation raises regulatory...
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Virtualised and Open RAN Role in Overhaul of Mobile Network Sharing Regulation in Europe for 5G Rollout
Földes, Gábor - 2023
There is an investment gap to reach EU Digital Decade 2030 connectivity targets that require from operators to provide full fixed and mobile broadband coverage. The reason is the lack of economies of scale, therefore return on investment often lags behind cost of capital in fragmented European...
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Competition before sunset: The case of the Finnish ATM market
Kopsakangas-Savolainen, Maria; Takalo, Tuomas - Suomen Pankki - 2012
optimal regulation. We use the model to analyze an actual regulation of such a market by competition authorities in Finland … Ramsey regulation. While the Finnish regulation pushes the foreign fee downwards towards its socially optimal level, the … regulated fees are likely to remain too high from the welfare point of view. In contrast with the actual regulation, it would be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011166107