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Müller, Wieland; Konrad, K.A.; Morath, F. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2010

We analyze the incidence and welfare e¤ects of unit sales taxes in experimental monopoly and Bertrand markets. We nd, in line with economic theory, that rms with no market power are able to shift a high share of a tax burden on to consumers, independent of whether buyers are automated or human...

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Socially Optimal Mechanisms

Onderstal, A.M. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2002

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Campaign Advertising and Voter Welfare

Prat, A. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1997

This paper investigates the role of campaign advertising and the opportunity of legal restrictions on it. An electoral … receive on non-directly informative advertising. This paper shows that: (1) A separating equilibrium exists in which the group … rational, a ban on campaign advertising can be welfare-improving; and (3) Split contributions may arise in equilibrium (and …

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Assessing Unilateral Merger Effects in a Two-Sided Market : An Application to the Dutch Daily Newspaper Market

Filistrucchi, Lapo; Klein, Tobias J.; Michielsen, T.O. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2011

differentiated products on both the readership and the advertising side of the market. This allows us to recover price elasticities …

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Campaign Spending with Office-Seeking Politicians, Rational Voters and Multiple Lobbies

Prat, A. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1998

I introduce a microfounded model of campaign finance with office-seeking politicians, a continuum of voters, and a large number of heterogeneous lobbies. Lobbies make contributions to politicians according to a common agency framework. Politicians use contributions to finance their electoral...

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Cross-Border Mergers and Market Segmentation (Replaces CentER DP 2010-096)

Ray Chaudhuri, A. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2011

This paper shows that cross-border mergers are more likely to occur in industries which serve multiple segmented markets rather than a single integrated market, given that cost functions are strictly convex. The product price rises in the market where an acquisition is made but falls in the...

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Acquisitions by Multinationals and Trade Liberalization

Ray Chaudhuri, A. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2014

Abstract This paper develops a theoretical framework where a multinational firm (MNE) is allowed to acquire or sell a productive asset in multiple segmented asset markets. The asset is used to produce a final good which can be sold in multiple countries, with segmented product markets,...

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On the Optimal Taxation of an Exhaustible Resource Under Monopolistic Extraction

Daubanes, J. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2007

In a simple model of resource depletion (isoelastic demand and constant unit extraction cost), we fully characterize the set of linear effiency-inducing tax/subsidy schemes. We show that this set is infinite and all the larger as the cost of extraction is low. Depending on the magnitude of the...

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Exclusive Quality

Argenton, Cédric - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2008

In the case of vertically differentiated products, Bertrand competition at the retail level does not prevent an incumbent upstream firm from using exclusivity contracts to deter the entry of a more efficient rival, contrary to what happens in the homogenous product case. Indeed, because of...

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Naked Exclusion : Towards a Behavioral Approach to Exclusive Dealing

boone, jan; Müller, Wieland; Suetens, Sigrid - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2009

We report experimental results on exclusive dealing inspired by the literature on "naked exclusion". Our key findings are: First, exclusion of a more efficient entrant is a widespread phenomenon in lab markets. Second, allowing incumbents to discriminate between buyers increases exclusion rates...

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