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Partly motivated by the recent antitrust investigations concerning Google, we develop a leverage theory of tying in two …
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We empirically assess the impact of the EU roaming regulation on mobile operators' average revenues per user (ARPU) and …-level data we find that the regulation decreased mobile operator's revenues per user, while it had no impact on tariffs during … the latest phase of the regulation. …
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Despite the positive effect electricity grids separated from generation and supply by ownership are expected to have on the level of competition in the non-network activities, several EU member states still adhere to a solely legally unbundled transmission grid. This choice might be induced by...
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We empirically assess the impact of the EU roaming regulation on mobile operators’ average revenues per user (ARPU) and …-level data we find that the regulation decreased mobile operator’s revenues per user, while it had no impact on tariffs during … the latest phase of the regulation …
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In this paper, two pairs of complementors have to decide whether to merge and eventually bundle their products. Depending on the degree of competitive pressure in the market, either both pairs decide to merge (with or without bundling), or only one pair merges and bundles, while rivals remain...
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infrastructure investments beyond the level achieved by access regulation and they seem to facilitate tacit price collusion. On the … that must be considered. -- experimental economics ; network industries ; co-investment ; collusion ; regulation …
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We assess the influence of competition and capital regulation on the stability of the banking system. We particularly … ask two questions: i) how does capital regulation affect (endogenous) entry; and ii) how do (exogenous) changes in the … competitive environment affect bank monitoring choices and the effectiveness of capital regulation? Our approach deviates from the …
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Several regulatory authorities have recently allowed competing network operators to co-invest in network infrastructure. With the use of a laboratory experiment, we investigate the impact of co-investments on competition in regulated network industries, particularly in comparison to unilateral...
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We study price-cap regulation in a market in which a vertically integrated upstream monopolist sells an essential input … to a downstream competitor. In the absence of regulation, entry benefits both firms, but may be detrimental to downstream …
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