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Seeds, Patents and Power : The Shifting Foundation of Our Food System

Matson, James - 2014

Our food supply rests on a foundation of agricultural seed. As the world races to meet soaring food demand, the development and control of this fundamental genetic resource will be of critical concern to the entire human community. Seed, once treated as a shared public good and natural resource,...

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Open Access, Interoperability, and the DTCC's Unexpected Path to Monopoly

Awrey, Dan; Macey, Joshua - 2021

interoperability requirements as superior to both regulated monopoly and the break-up of dominant firms. In theory, by compelling firms …

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Design and Ownership of Two-Sided Networks : Implications for Internet Platforms

Bakos, Yannis - 2019

Many Internet intermediaries operate two-sided networks, that is, they provide platforms to bring together two types of participants, or quot;sides,quot; such as buyers and sellers. This paper develops a model that characterizes the intermediary's pricing in two-sided networks, the value created...

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Strategic corporate social responsibility

Planer-Friedrich, Lisa; Sahm, Marco - 2017

, we consider symmetric Cournot competition and show that the endogenous level of CSR is positive for any given number of …

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Collusive agreements in vertically differentiated markets

Marini, Marco A. - 2017

This paper introduces a number of game-theoretic tools to model collusive agreements among firms in vertically differentiated markets. I firstly review some classical literature on collusion between two firms producing goods of exogenous different qualities. I then extend the analysis to a...

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The Strategic Use of Download Limits by a Monopoly Platform

Economides, Nicholas; Hermalin, Benjamin - NET Institute - 2013

as substitutes. This, in turn, intensifies the competition among providers, generating greater surplus for consumers. A …

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Network Neutrality and Network Management Regulation: Quality of Service, Price Discrimination, and Exclusive Contracts

Economides, Nicholas; Tåg, Joacim - NET Institute - 2011

We compare four approaches to network neutrality and network management regulation in a two-sided market model: (i) no variations in Quality of Service and no price discrimination; (ii) variations in Quality of Service but no price discrimination; (iii) variations in Quality of Service and price...

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Real-time Pricing in Power Markets: Who Gains?

Boom, Anette; Schwenen, Sebastian - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2012

We examine welfare effects of real-time pricing in electricity markets. Before stochastic energy demand is known, competitive retailers contract with final consumers who exogenously do not have real-time meters. After demand is realized, two electricity generators compete in a uniform price...

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Understanding the Lack of Competition in Natural Gas Markets: The Impact of Storage Ownership and Upstream Competition

Mravec, Michal - Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education and … - 2007

Motivated by the failure of competition to emerge after the natural gas market in the Czech Republic was liberalized, I … explore the impact of natural gas storage ownership and upstream competition on the downstream level. I extend standard … liberalization on a country characterized by a lack of domestic production, limited foreign upstream competition, and highly …

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Platform Intermediation in a Market for Differentiated Products

Galeotti, Andrea; Moraga-González, José Luis - Tinbergen Institute - 2008

same time increases competition. As a result, the platform lowers the firm fees and raises the consumer charges. In … competition. In this case, the platform raises both the charge to the consumers and the fee for the firms. …

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