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In this paper, we tackle the dilemma of pruning versus proliferation in a vertically differentiated oligopoly under the assumption that some firms collude and control both the range of variants for sale and their corresponding prices, likewise a multiproduct firm. We analyse whether pruning...
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, we consider symmetric Cournot competition and show that the endogenous level of CSR is positive for any given number of …
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costs to the products being advertised, - Elimination (or non-emergence) of competition in markets to the products being …
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the successful introduction of competition in the telecommunications sector. The main reason behind this success is that … telecommunications is in line with micro-economic theory, which predicts an increase in efficiency and lower prices when markets are … opened up to competition. The success in the telecommunications sector is often used as an argument for opening up other …
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competition for consumers. -- Platforms ; Software ; Two-sided markets …
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use. Regulations are unnecessary because even in the absence of robust broadband competition, network owners are likely to … protected the railroads from competition by erecting new barriers to entry in the surface transportation marketplace. Other 20th …-century regulatory agencies also limited competition in the industries they regulated. Like these older regulatory regimes, network …
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In this paper we study price competition, equilibrium market configurations and entry when firms compete in vertically …-quality duopolist is always pushed out. We then allow for competition between complements on both sides of the market: one of the …
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discount or rebate program has had or is likely to have an adverse effect on competition. We argue that the first of these … adverse impact on competition is essential …
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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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Standard monopsony theory, old and new, lacks a realistic criterion to distinguish between monopsony and competitive … the elasticity of the demand schedules for their products, can be altered as a result of coercion, lead to a theory of …
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