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This paper investigates the competition between payment card issuers in an artificial payment card market. In the … market leads to the result that more competitors do actually reduce competition for customers …
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Explore the practice of offering subscribers enticements to switch suppliers. This type of competition is natural in …
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This paper formalizes an empirically implementable framework for the definition of local antitrust markets in retail markets. This framework rests on a demand model that captures the trade-off between distance and pecuniary cost across alternative shopping destinations within local markets. The...
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This paper formalizes an empirically implementable framework for the definition of local antitrust markets in retail markets. This framework rests on a demand model that captures the trade-off between distance and pecuniary cost across alternative shopping destinations within local markets. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008659354
We analyze collusion under demand uncertainty by cartels such as OPEC that care about the utility derived from profits by citizens. When citizens are sufficiently risk averse and fixed operating costs are non-trivial, it becomes difficult for cartels to collusively restrict output both when...
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We propose an analysis of platform competition based on the academic literature with a view towards competition policy …. First, we discuss to which extent competition can emerge in digital markets and show which forms it can take. In particular … competition in platform markets. Second, we analyse competition policy issues and discuss how rules designed for standard markets …
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effect of competition on innovation in the PC microprocessor industry. Firms make dynamic pricing and investment decisions …
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We investigate the relationship between competition and innovation using a dynamic oligopoly model that endogenizes … both the long-run innovation rate and market structure. We use the model to examine how various determinants of competition …
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competition in the grocery trade. Market investigations of the sector have been launched in several Member States, and there have … practitioners have been under pressure to find out in what ways competition rules may be used to limit these practices. The goal of … this paper is to give a comprehensive overview of the competition law issues that might arise in the context of private …
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Pricing Game - to identify when competition between communications networks is a sustainable market outcome. The Network … results of The Network Pricing Game show that the sustainability of competition between networks is influenced by initial … that policy must be designed to meet market conditions. In some markets, competition will result without regulation. In …
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