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An empirical analysis of the counterfactual: a merger and divestiture in the Australian cigarette industry

Pham, Vivienne; Prentice, David - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

In this paper we empirically analyse two counterfactual situations facing an anti-trust authority following the merger … independent estimates available. We then use the model to simulate the proposed merger and the partial divestiture that was … to assess the welfare implications of proposed mergers and partial divestitures. …

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“Status of Supply Chain Finance in FMCG companies- a Benchmarking Approach”

More, Dileep Satappa; Maddali, Ravi Kiran - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

A company’s performance significantly depends on how well a company manages its finances keeping in view the short term hurdles and long term goals. One objective of ﬁnancial statement analysis is to determine ﬁrm value. Research suggests that a ﬁrm’s value is a function of the...

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Uno, nessuno o centomila? Tre miti sui prezzi dei carburanti in Italia

Stagnaro, Carlo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This paper deals with the issue of transparency in the pricing process for motor fuels, vis-à-vis the collusion charges between oil companies (for which no evidence is found) and the «myth» of «one» national price for motor fuels. Such an approach ignores both the competition between oil...

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Entry and Competition in Local Newspaper Retail Markets - When two are enough

Balmer, Roberto - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This chapter estimates sustainable coverage and competitive effects of entry for Swiss newspaper sellers which sell composite goods, including a range of other products such as food and near-food items. It utilises the applied entry threshold ratio methodology from Bresnahan and Reiss (1991),...

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Competition and Market Strategies in the Swiss Fixed Telephony Market. An estimation of Swisscom’s dynamic residual demand curve.

Balmer, Roberto - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Fixed telephony has long been a fundamentally important market for European telecommunications operators. The liberalisation and the introduction of regulation in the end of the 1990s, however, allowed new entrants to compete with incumbents at the retail level. A rapid price decline and a...

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Efecto de las políticas públicas de vigilancia, control y regulación en el mercado del tabaco en Colombia

Sánchez, Trujillo; Enrique, Jorge - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

(SIC), by blocking a merger between the two major domestic tobacco companies (Compañía Colombiana de Tabaco S.A. [Coltabaco …] and Productora Tabacalera de Colombia Ltda. [Protabaco]), and subsequently by permitting another merger (Protabaco and …

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User Generated Content: Web 2.0 Taking the Video Sector by Storm

Mabillot, David - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

This article examines the communities involved in the distribution and sharing of videos on the internet. Firstly, we study the practices connected with user generated content and describe the appearance of new players (YouTube, Dailymotion, Google Video, Zudeo, etc.) in the audiovisual...

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Product Development 2.0

Hinchcliffe, Dion - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Web 2.0 principles will not only revolutionize the web experience, the design pattern and the business models of software companies. They can indeed be applied to a lot of industries for new approaches to product development. The web can be used to put users in control and co-create better and...

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P2P: From File Sharing to Meta-information Pooling

Dagiral, Eric; Dauphin, Florian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

P2P networks have mainly been used for downloading cultural goods. This sociological research focuses on the practices and norms of users and designers. Drawing on a qualitative survey, it explores the many ways sharing takes place. It looks at P2P networks as file sharing communities and probes...

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Inter-Modal Competition and Telecommunications Policy in the United States

Shelanski, Howard A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

This article discusses changes in the U.S. telecommunications market over the last decade and argues that increasing competitive substitution from wireless and internetbased communications has undermined the rationale for conventional monopoly regulation of incumbent local telephone carriers....

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