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Incentive to invest in improving the quality in telecommunication industry
Jeanjean, François - International Telecommunications Society (ITS) - 2012
This paper investigates the incentives to invest in improving the quality (as distinguished to investment in a new activity) in telecommunication industry using the empirical example of wireless markets. We highlight that investment incentives are positively related to the potential for...
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Pricing behaviour at capacity constrained facilities
Larsen, Huric; Fredborg, Jesper - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Entry of new firms can be difficult or even impossible at capacity constrained facilities, despite the actual cost of entering is low. Using a game theoretic model of incumbent firms’ pricing behaviour under these conditions, it is found that under the assumption of Bertrand competition and...
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Barriers to entry : abolishing the barriers to understanding
Keppler, Jan Horst - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
BARRIERS TO ENTRY: ABOLISHING THE BARRIERS TO UNDERSTANDING by Jan-Horst Keppler Professor of economics Université Paris – Dauphine, LEDa, and Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, PHARE Port.: (+33 6) 77 81 37 46; Email: jan.keppler@dauphine.fr. Abstract The concept of a barrier to entry...
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Fair Trade - Is It Really Fair?
Konecny, Tomas; Myslivecek, Jan - Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education and … - 2008
One of the arguments against the Fair Trade scheme is that the guaranteed minimum price tends to depress world prices and thus the incomes of non-participating farmers (e.g. The Economist, 2006). We develop a model that distinguishes between the impact of the introduction of a Fair Trade market...
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Fairness Regulation of Prices in Competitive Markets
Yang, Zongsen; Fu, Xingyu; Gao, Pin; Chen, Ying-Ju - 2022
on prices to curb such controversial practices. In this work, we find that, relative to non-regulation, appropriate … regulation may alleviate the cut-throat price competition among firms, and lead to a Pareto win-win outcome from the perspectives … of consumers and firms. However, inappropriate fairness regulation may stifle product quality improvement or induce high …
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Can Agent-Based Models Forecast Spot Prices in Electricity Markets? Evidence from the New Zealand Electricity Market
Young, David; Poletti, Stephen; Browne, Oliver - 2012
Modelling price formation in electricity markets is a notoriously difficult process, due to physical constraints on electricity generation and flow. This difficulty has inspired the recent development of bottom-up agent-based models of electricity markets. While these have proven quite...
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Chapter Twelve. Markets for Pharmaceutical Products
Scott Morton, Fiona; Kyle, Margaret - In: Handbook of health economics : volume 2, (pp. 763-823). 2011
also characterized by extensive regulation of almost every activity, from product development through manufacturing and …
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The gas chain : influence of its specificities on the liberalisation process
Swartenbroekx, Carine - 2007
Like other network industries, the European gas supply industry has been liberalised, along the lines of what has been done in the United Kingdom and the United States, by opening up to competition the upstream and downstream segments of essential transmission infrastructure. The aim of this...
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Regulating gasoline retail markets : the case of Germany
Wittmann, Nadine - 2014
In 2011, price peaks in retail gasoline prices caused public outrage and attracted the attention of German regulatory agencies. After having examined the market, competition authorities concluded that tacit collusion existed but could not easily be prosecuted under the given competition law. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010340142
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Regulating gasoline retail markets : the case of Germany
Wittmann, Nadine - 2014
In 2011, price peaks in retail gasoline prices caused public outrage and attracted the attention of German regulatory agencies. After having examined the market, competition authorities concluded that tacit collusion existed but could not easily be prosecuted under given competition law. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010413228