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In a recent paper, Alipranti et al. (2014, Price vs. quantity competition in a vertically related market, Economics … Letters, 124: 122-126) show that in a vertically related market Cournot competition yields higher social welfare compared to … Bertrand competition if the upstream firm subsidises the quantity setting downstream firm's production via negative wholesale …
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the idea that direct competition damages social ties and the more general notion of state-dependent preferences …
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We consider contestants who must choose exactly one contest, out of several, to participate in. We show that when the contest technology is of a certain type, or when the number of contestants is large, a self-allocation equilibrium, i.e., one where no contestant would wish to change his choice...
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that are more effective at preventing outsider's entry and at mitigating price competition lead to less patenting. We test … restrict entry and price competition. We show that guilds which originated from medieval religious confraternities were more … likely to regulate entry and competition, and that the effect on patenting is robust to instrumenting guild statutes with …
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Mergers realize heterogeneous competitive effects on profits, production, and prices. To date, it is unclear whether differential merger outcomes are caused mostly by firms' technology or product market attributes. Furthermore, empirical merger studies conventionally assume that, conditional on...
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stress that competition and regulatory authorities should take seriously the potential trade-off between market power effects …
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This paper empirically investigates the advertising competition in the French broadcast television industry within a … oligopoly competition and identify the shape and magnitude of the feedback loop between TV viewers and advertisers. We also … implement a simple procedure to identify the conduct of firms on the market. We find that the nature of competition in the …
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We consider campaign competition in which candidates compete for votes among a continuum of voters by engaging in … to the vote-share maximizing game. If the candidates are symmetric ex ante, both types of electoral competition dissipate …
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We provide new experimental evidence which suggests an asymmetric discouragement effect in lottery contests with heterogeneous abilities. Compared to a symmetric contest, subjects invest less effort when facing a stronger opponent, but they invest the same when facing a weaker opponent. Our...
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I consider a contest in which the quantity of output is rewarded and another in which the quality of output is rewarded. The output in the quality contest plays a dual role. It counts in the quality contest but it is also converted into quantity-equivalent output to obtain total output in the...
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