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Mills, David E. - 2011

This paper investigates the exercise of market power by a large buyer who emerges via growth, merger, or group purchasing. It explores the efficiency and redistributive effects of such an event when a competitive fringe of small buyers remains in the market. Terms of trade, including those for...

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New Policies for Mandatory Defined Contribution Pensions : Industrial Organization Models and Investment Products

Impavido, Gregorio - 2010

This book has three main objectives: (a) to discuss the main implications that consumers' inability to make rational choices can have on the functioning of second pillars, (b) to describe how jurisdictions have tried to address these problems through ad hoc policy interventions, and (c) to...

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Exclusivity and Antitrust in Media Markets : The Case of Pay-Tv in Europe

Nicita, Antonio - 2005

This paper challenges the traditional economic reasons supporting copyright licensing exclusivity in dealership agreements in media markets. It is argued how exclusive dealings in contents distributions acted in Europe as barriers to entry and/or raising rivals' costs strategies against new...

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Anti- vs. Pro-Competitive Mergers

Fridolfsson, Sven-Olof - 2011

In a framework where mergers are mutually excluding, I show that firms pursue anti- rather than (alternative) pro-competitive mergers. Potential outsiders to anti-competitive mergers refrain from pursuing pro-competitive mergers if the positive externalities from anti-competitive mergers are...

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Securitization, Competition and Efficiency

Ahn, Jung-Hyun - 2010

This article analyzes the motivation for loan securitization and its effect on loan market efficiency. We consider a two-period loan market competition model in which period 2-competition is affected by the winner's curse. This increases ex ante competition for a greater initial market share....

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Exclusivity and Antitrust in Media Markets : The Case of Pay-TV in Europe

Nicita, Antonio - 2006

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Brain Mechanisms of Persuasion : How "Expert Power" Modulates Memory and Attitudes

Klucharev, Vasily - 2012

Human behavior is affected by various forms of persuasion. The general persuasive effect of high expertise of the communicator, often referred to as quot;expert powerquot;, is well documented. We found that a single exposure to a combination of an expert and an object leads to a long-lasting...

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Promotion and Prevention Across Mental Accounts : When Financial Products Dictate Consumers' Investment Goals

Zhou, Rongrong - 2011

We propose that consumers' investment decisions involve processes of promotion and prevention regulation that are managed across separate mental accounts, with different financial products seen as representative of promotion versus prevention. Consistent with this hypothesis, we show that (a)...

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Dynamic Optimal Control Models in Advertising : A Survey

Sethi, Suresh - 2010

The last ten years have seen a growing number of optimal control theory applications to the field of advertising. This … paper presents an up-to-date survey of dynamic optimal control models in advertising that have appeared in the literature ….The basic problem underlying these models is an optimal control problem to determine the optimal rate of advertising …

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Why (and When) are Preferences Convex? Threshold Effects and Uncertain Quality

Smith, Trenton G. - 2009

common commercial advertising strategies), suggesting that sensitivity to information about thresholds is deeply rooted in …

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