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Agony of choice : trading off stability and competition in the banking markets

Hellwig, Michael; Laser, Falk Hendrik - 2019 - Preliminary version

and Fortis Bank NL in the Dutch retail banking market. The financial crisis delayed the completion of the merger giving …

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Market entry regulation and international competition

Bayındır-Upmann, Thorsten; Stähler, Frank - 2003

As a part of their industry or competition policies governments decide whether to allow for free market entry of firms or to regulate market access. We analyze a model where governments (ab)use these policy decisions for strategic reasons in an international setting. Multiple equilibria of this...

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Online Search Engine Competition with First-Mover Advantages, Potential Competition and a Competitive Fringe : Implications for Data Access Regulation and Antitrust

Casanova, Jordi - 2020

Are dominant online search engines monopolies enjoying low contest-ability, due to high barriers to entry, or innovative first-movers? This paper argues that dominant online search engines maintain their leadership through an “innovation feedback loop”: a process whereby increasing R&D...

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Analysis of Optimal Tariff Schedules in Gas Transportation Under Open Access

Oviedo Arango, Juan Daniel - 2008

This document analyses the effects of regulation and competition policy on the structure of the gas market. The natural monopoly features of transportation, added to the physical and technological features of gas as a commodity, allow this activity to be the focus of interesting regulatory...

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Preventing Monopoly or Discouraging Competition? The Perils of Price-Cost Tests for Market Power in Electricity

Brennan, Tim - 2006

Allegations of market power in wholesale electricity sales are typically tested using price-cost margins. Such tests are inherently suspect in markets, such as electricity, subject to capacity constraints. In such markets, prices can vary with demand while quantity and thus cost measures remain...

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Bank Competition and Financial (In)Stability in Europe : A Sensitivity Analysis

Samantas, Ioannis - 2013

during the period 2002-2010. The results show an inverse U-shaped association between market power and bank soundness and … activities, official intervention to bank management and book transparency. However, in markets with higher share of foreign … stability channel of bank competition …

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Pass-Through Pricing on Production Chains

Miceli, Maria-Augusta; Nardone, Claudia - 2016

We here want to analyze how the imperfect competition mark-up and pass-through are transmitted through the production chain and how they change, as a function of the number of firms existing at each production stage. In order to have an analytical closed form solution, we use the standard linear...

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Competition, regulation and institutional quality

Fabella, Raul V. - 2017

Regulation and competition policy are two alternative modalities by which the state intervenes in the market. In order for either to deliver welfare gains, there must first be a pre-existing market failure. We first present different varieties of market failures and identify those for which...

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Happily ever after? - vertical and horizontal mergers in the U.S. media industry

Stöhr, Annika; Noskova, Victoriia; Kunz-Kaltenhäuser, … - 2019

media content, including the AT&T-Time Warner and the Disney-Fox mergers. Using a theory-driven approach, we examine …

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The Unsound Theory Behind the Consumer (and Total) Welfare Goal in Antitrust

Glick, Mark - 2019

This is the first installment of a two-part commentary on the New Brandeis School in Antitrust. In this first part, I examine why the New Brandeis School is correct to reject the consumer welfare standard. Instead of arguing, as the New Brandesians do, that the consumer welfare standard leads to...

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