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Desai, Deven R.; Lianos, Ioannis; Waller, Spencer Weber - 2015

Brands and brand management have become a central feature of the modern economy and a staple of business theory and business practice. Contrary to the law’s conception of trademarks, brands are used to indicate far more than source and/or quality. This volume begins the process of broadening...

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The Competitive Significance of Brands

Desai, Deven R.; Waller, Spencer Weber - 2015

This essay summarizes our work on brands and competition. Brands and brand management have become a central feature of the modern economy and a staple of business theory and business practice. Brands also have important effects on competition and the marketplace; yet the two key areas of law...

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Horizontal Merger Analysis with Endogenous Product Range Choice

Erkal, Nisvan; Pan, Lijun - 2022

We consider mergers between multi-product firms in a market with monopolistically competitive fringe of single-product firms. Aggregate product variety is determined by product variety choices of multi-product firms and entry/exit decisions of single-product firms. Mergers can generate marginal...

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Strategic data sales to competing firms

Delbono, Flavio; Reggiani, Carlo; Sandrini, Luca - 2022

The unprecedented access of firms to consumer level data facilitates more precisely targeted individual pricing. We study the incentives of a data broker to sell data about a segment of the market to three competing firms. The segment only includes a share of the consumers in the market around...

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Supplement to 'An Empirical Model of Bargaining with Equilibrium of Fear : Application to Retail Mergers in the French Soft Drink Industry'

Bonnet, Céline; Bouamra-Mechemache, Zohra; Molina, Hugo - 2023

manufacturers determined via the "Nash-in-Nash" bargaining solution, the computation of the out-of-equilibrium retail prices … following a bargaining breakdown, the algorithm used to simulate counterfactuals in our bilateral oligopoly model, the … analytical derivatives of standard errors of the Nash bargaining weights …

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A Nash-in-Nash Model of Corporate Control and Oligopolistic Competition under Common Ownership

Vravosinos, Orestis - 2023

’s conduct results from Nash bargaining (NB) among shareholders and firms play a Nash equilibrium in Nash bargains. NB …

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An Information Approach to Trademarks

Desai, Deven R. - 2015

Trademark law’s current conception of information and how trademarks enable information transmission is underdeveloped. It has led to a world where trademark law hinders rather than “fosters the flow of information in markets.” Instead of promoting information exchange across and within...

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Smart entry in local retail markets for electricity and natural gas

Bartholomae, Florian W.; Morasch, Karl; Tóth, Rita Orsolya - Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und … - 2009

Consider a market with switching costs that is initially served by a monopolistic incumbent. How can a competitor successfully enter this market? We show that an offer to undercut the incumbent by a fixed margin serves this purpose. This strategy dominates traditional entry where the entrant...

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Fusión Procompetitiva y Economías de escala en el Mercado de AFPs

Agostini, Claudio; Saavedra, Eduardo; Willington, Manuel - ILADES, Facultad de Economía y Negocios - 2009

Este trabajo cumple con dos objetivos principales. En primer lugar, se estima la función de costos de las administradoras de fondos de pensiones en Chile usando datos de panel desde 2000 a 2007. Se encuentran importantes economías de escala en la provisión de los servicios financieros,...

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Does cartel leadership facilitate collusion?

Escrihuela-Villar, Marc - Departament d'Economia Aplicada, Facultat de Ciències … - 2009

We discuss the implications of a Stackelberg sequence of play between a cartel and the fringe. We consider two different approaches to collusion: (i) one-stage static model and (ii) a multi-period oligopoly model. Our main result is that in the static model with quantity-setting firms a stable...

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