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Market Concentration in Europe : Evidence from Antitrust Markets

Affeldt, Pauline Luise; Duso, Tomaso; Gugler, Klaus; … - 2021

An increasing body of empirical evidence is documenting trends toward rising concentration, profits, and markups in many industries around the world since the 1980s. Two major criticisms of these studies is that concentration and market shares are poorly measured at the national industry level...

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Selling Cross-Border in Online Markets : The Impact of the Ban on Geoblocking Strategies

Bourreau, Marc; Manenti, Fabio M. - 2021

We develop a model of strategic geoblocking, where two competing multi-channel retailers, located in different countries, can decide to block access to their online store from foreign consumers. We characterize the equilibrium when firms decide unilaterally whether to introduce geoblocking...

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Concentration and Competition : Evidence from Europe and Implications for Policy

Koltay, Gábor; Lorincz, Szabolcs; Valletti, Tommaso M. - 2022

The paper provides new evidence on proxy indicators of market power for major European countries. The data shows moderately increasing average industry concentration over the last two decades, a considerably increasing proportion of high concentration industries, and an overall tendency towards...

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Impact of Roaming Regulation on Revenues and Prices of Mobile Operators in the EU

Grzybowski, Lukasz; Munoz-Acevedo, Ángela - 2021

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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Evaluating the Impact of Price Caps - Evidence from the European Roam-Like-At-Home Regulation

Canzian, Giulia; Mazzarella, Gianluca; Verzillo, Stefano; … - 2021

The roam-like-at-home regulation (RLAH) eliminated all mobile roaming surcharges to Eu-ropean consumers travelling … within the European Economic Area (EEA). We measure the causal impact of the regulation on EEA roaming traffic, using the … revenues. To evaluate the welfare effects of the regulation, we develop a framework that includes consumer surplus, retail and …

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Deterrence through word of mouth

Rincke, Johannes; Traxler, Christian - 2009

The deterrent effect of law enforcement rests on the link between the actual and the perceived detection risk. We study the role of word of mouth for this linkage. Our approach makes use of micro data on compliance with TV license fees allowing us to distinguish between households who have been...

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Testing enforcement strategies in the field : legal threat, moral appeal and social information

Fellner, Gerlinde; Sausgruber, Rupert; Traxler, Christian - 2009

We run a large-scale natural field experiment to evaluate alternative strategies to enforce compliance with the law. The experiment varies the text of mailings sent to potential evaders of TV license fees. We find a strong alert effect of mailings, leading to a substantial increase in...

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Is it the Gums, Teeth or the Bite? Effectiveness of Dimensions of Enforcement in Curbing Corruption

Capasso, Salvatore - 2019

Adding a new dimension to determinants of corruption, this paper examines the effectiveness of enforcement in reducing corruption. We compare the influences of latent enforcement (police, judicial, and prosecutorial employment) versus actual enforcement (conviction rates) and enforcing...

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Judicial Efficiency and Banks Credit Risk Exposure

Canzian, Giulia; Ferrara, Antonella - 2021

We exploit the outset of a regulation seeking to improve judicial efficiency through the rearrangement of courts …

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Nudging Enforcers : How Norm Perceptions and Motives for Lying Shape Sanctions

Dimant, Eugen; Gesche, Tobias - 2021

The enforcement of social norms is the fabric of a functioning society. Through the lens of multiple studies using different methodologies (a behavioral experiment and a vignette experiment in Study 1, as well as a norm elicitation experiment in Study 2), we examine how motives for lying and...

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