Showing 51 - 60 of 527,848
This paper analyzes how data-driven vertical integration between a platform and one downstream seller affects market outcomes in a two-sided market where sellers with asymmetric targeting skills target advertisements to individuals who have varying privacy concerns. I show that data-driven...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012854476
and competition from the fringe. We argue that when dominance is derived from first-mover advantages and innovation … feedback loops, rather than high and non-transitory barriers to entry, competition policy and regulation should avoid … from anti-competitive foreclosing abuses rather than from competition on the merits …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012828760
intermodal competition between fixed and wireless telephony suggests that efforts to promote intramodal competition (e ….g., unbundling mandates) remain necessary because consumer savings in wireline telephony since the passage of the Telecommunications … Act of 1996 - which are estimated to exceed $10 billion annually - are likely the result of intramodal competition between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014072137
It has been a policy proposal since long to vertically separate transport and infrastructure in Germany's railway … infrastructure. We examine the price setting incentives of an integrated and a separated network-operator and compare our results to … rough empirical s on the profitability of the Deutsche Bahn AG infrastructure branches. Theoretical analysis highlights that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008773263
In this paper, we conduct a pan-European efficiency analysis to investigate the performance of European railways with a particular focus on economies of vertical integration. We test the hypothesis that integrated railways realize economies of scope and, thus, produce railway services with a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261671
In this paper, we conduct a pan-European efficiency analysis to investigate the performance of European railways with a particular focus on economies of vertical integration. We test the hypothesis that integrated railways realize economies of scope and, thus, produce railway services with a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265126
The objective of this paper is to analyze the impact of regulatory and environmental conditions on technical efficiency of European railways. Using a panel data set of 31 railway firms from 22 European countries from 1994 to 2005, a multioutput distance function model, including regulatory and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265179
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013274351
employees and finally engage in imperfect product market competition. Equilibria with and without training, and multiple … equilibria can emerge. If competition is sufficiently soft and trained workers are substitutes, firms may invest in non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262533
intra- und intermodalen Wettbewerb ausgesetzt; zum anderen spiegeln die gesetzlichen Rahmenbedingungen vielfältige, sich …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009194529