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Why is on-net traffic cheaper than off-net traffic? Access markup as a collusive device and a barrier to entry

Gabrielsen, Tommy Staahl; Vagstad, Steinar - Institutt for Økonomi, Universitetet i Bergen - 2004

Received literature have shown that if competing networks are restricted to linear and uniform pricing, high access charges can facilitate collusion; a result that breaks down if we allow for non-linear and discriminatory pricing, however. In this paper we add unbalanced calling pattern to the...

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Risiken für die Emerging Markets in Mittel- und Osteuropa vor dem Hintergrund der Erfahrungen Thailands, Mexikos und Tschechiens ; Beitrag für den Projektbericht: Währungspolitische Optionen für die mittel- und osteuropäischen Beitrittskandidaten zur EU

Sell, Friedrich L. - Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und … - 1999

Der vorliegende Aufsatz untersucht die Ursachen von Finanzmarktkrisen anhand entsprechender Vorkommnisse in Thailand, Mexiko und Tschechien, um risikoreiche Konstellationen für Emerging Markets zu identifizieren. Als Modell wurde der Ansatz von Sachs/Tornell/Velasco (1996) gewählt, der durch...

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The opportunism problem revisited: The case of retailer sales effort

Staahl Gabrielsen, Tommy; Johansen, Bjørn Olav - Institutt for Økonomi, Universitetet i Bergen - 2013

We study a setting where the opportunism or commitment problem identifed by Hart and Tirole (1990) may arise. An upstream monopolist may sell its product to two differentiated downstream retailers. Contract unobservability induces the manufacturer and each retailer to free-ride on margins earned...

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PRIVATE LABELS, RENT SHIFTING AND CONSUMER WELFARE.

Johansen, Bjørn Olav - Institutt for Økonomi, Universitetet i Bergen - 2012

This paper investigates a retailer's decision to introduce a private label and asks how the retailer's access to a private label may affect the pricing of substitute national brands. We consider a model with two vertically differentiated national brand manufacturers that negotiate sequentially...

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Compassion and cost: The dual role of reference pricing

Yesim Köksal, Miyase - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2011

Providing health insurance involves a trade-off between the benefits from risk spreading and the costs due to moral hazard. Focusing on pharmaceuticals consumption, this paper examines theoretically whether reference pricing, requiring individuals to pay the price difference if, in this case,...

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REFERENCE PRICING - Making Parallel Trade in Pharmaceuticals Work

Yesim Köksal, Miyase - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2009

Should governments allow parallel trade of pharmaceuticals? There is no clear-cut answer to this question, since parallel trade causes some public concerns. One is that prices might not decrease much in the home country because consumers are price insensitive as a result of medical insurance....

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Exposing agricultural cooperatives to competition.

Linnerud, Kristin; Vagstad, Steinar - Institutt for Økonomi, Universitetet i Bergen - 2008

We examine the optimal regulation of agricultural markets when farmers have organized their activity in a cooperative which is the monopoly supplier of an upstream product and which competes with a single rival firm in selling a homogenous downstream product. The rival's marginal cost is private...

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Deciding about (de-)centralization of industrial policy: Delegation by a central authority vs. bargaining of regional governments

Morasch, Karl - Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und … - 2003

delegation to regional governments. (ii) Asymmetrically informed regional governments bargain about empowering a central … authority. Interestingly delegation outperforms bargaining on average in a setting with side payments but without information … payments delivers in expectation a better result than delegation. …

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OPTIMAL RESOURCE ALLOCATION IN GENERAL COURNOTCOMPETITIVE EQUILIBRIUM

Ervik, Inger Sommerfelt; Soegaard, Christian - Institutt for Økonomi, Universitetet i Bergen - 2013

Conventional economic theory stipulates that output in Cournot competition is too low relative to that which is attained in perfect competition. We revisit this result in a General Cournot-competitive Equilibrium model with two industries that dier only in terms of productivity. We show that in...

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Cooperation and competition in markets with network externalities or learning curves

Morasch, Karl - Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und … - 2013

The related phenomena of learning curve and network effects are quite common in oligopolistic markets. In this context the present paper discusses the incentives of a technological leader to share its exclusive technology with potential competitors. An alliance may be preferable because partner...

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