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Cross-Ownership, R&D Spillovers, and Antitrust Policy

López, Angel L. - 2017

This paper considers cost-reducing R&D investment with spillovers in a Cournot oligopoly with overlapping ownership. We show that overlapping ownership leads to internalization of rivals' profits by firms and find that, for demand not too convex, increases in overlapping ownership increase...

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Efficiency Enhancing Taxation in Two-Sided Markets

Kind, Hans Jarle - 2008

imposing negative value-added taxes (subsidy) or positive specific taxes …

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Consumer Standards as a Strategic Device to Mitigate Ratchet Effects in Dynamic Regulation

Fiocco, Raffaele - 2014

Strategic delegation to an independent regulator with a pure consumer standard improves dynamic regulation by …

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Regulatory Arbitrage and the Efficiency of Banking Regulation

Boyer, Pierre C. - 2016

We study the efficiency of banking regulation under financial integration. Banks freely choose the jurisdiction where … to locate their activities and have private information about their efficiency level. Regulators non-cooperatively offer … regulators to discriminate between banks with different efficiency levels. This result is driven by the endogenous restriction …

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Media Market Concentration, Advertising Levels, and Ad Prices

Anderson, Simon P. - 2011

Standard media economics models imply that increased platform competition decreases ad levels and that mergers reduce per-viewer ad prices. The empirical evidence, however, is mixed. We attribute the theoretical predictions to the combined assumptions that there is no advertising congestion and...

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Manufacturers and Retailers in the Global Economy

Raff, Horst - 2011

consisting of efficiency gains in the vertical distribution chain …

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Buyer Power in International Markets

Raff, Horst - 2009

This paper investigates the implications for international markets of the existence of retailers/wholesalers with market power. Two main results are shown. First, in the presence of buyer power trade liberalization may lead to retail market concentration. Due to this concentration retail prices...

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Concentrating on the Fall of the Labor Share

Autor, David H. - 2017

The recent fall of labor's share of GDP in numerous countries is well-documented, but its causes are poorly understood. We sketch a “superstar firm” model where industries are increasingly characterized by “winner take most” competition, leading a small number of highly profitable (and...

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Market Integration, Wage Concentration, and the Cost and Volume of Trade Machines

Edwards, T. Huw - 2014

We investigate the theoretical relationship between wage concentration and international market integration. Access to imported varieties lowers the cost of intermediate inputs (“machines”) used to carry out production tasks, causing workers with different comparative abilities to be sorted...

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Manufacturers Mergers and Product Variety in Vertically Related Markets

Milliou, Chrysovalantou - 2014

We study final product manufacturers' incentives to introduce new products into the market and how they are affected by a merger among them. We show that when manufacturers distribute their products through multi-product retailers, a manufacturers merger, although it leads to an increase in the...

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