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This paper investigates the market equilibrium and welfare effects of two-part tariff competition. When consumers are …
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I study Cournot competition under incomplete information about demand while assuming that market price must be non … of the paper are relevant also for price competition and for uncertainty about, e.g., cost or the number of firms, and …
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We discuss the case of a monopolist of a base good in the presence of a complementary good provided either by it or by another firm. We assess and calibrate the extent of the influence on the profits from the base good that is created by the existence of the complementary good. We establish an...
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We here want to analyze how the imperfect competition mark-up and pass-through are transmitted through the production …. (ii) Pass-through increases in the number of firms, existing at each production stage, because competition transfers cost …
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We consider a heretofore unexplored explanation for why platforms, such as Internet service providers and mobile-phone networks, offer plans with download limits: through one of two mechanisms, doing so causes the providers of the content consumer purchase to either reduce their prices or...
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We discuss the case of a monopolist of a base good in the presence of a complementary good provided either by it or by another firm. We assess and calibrate the extent of the influence on the profits from the base good that is created by the existence of the complementary good. We establish an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014040381
This paper provides an overview of recent developments in algorithmic antitrust, and the economics and legal issues raised in the areas of abuse of dominance, algorithmic pricing and collusion, and mergers and acquisition. The general theme is that while much has been made of the possible...
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, introductory offers, and price wars. Such competition for the market or life-cycle competition can adequately replace ordinary … compatible competition, and can even be fiercer than compatible competition by weakening differentiation. More often, however …, incompatible competition not only involves direct efficiency losses but also softens competition and magnifies incumbency …
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This paper shows how a monopolist generally can increase its profits by offering a discount on its monopolized product if the customer agrees to buy a competitively supplied good from it at a price premium. The use of bundling to leverage market power has a long (and checkered) history in law...
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