In this paper, we analyze how wholesale access fees of a crucial input can be utilized to influence demands for products of different technologies and the deployment sequence between an incumbent and entrant firm. In a setting of multi-product competition with horizontally differentiated...

Die Verbindung zwischen Netzen (Autonomen Systemen) unterschiedlicher Betreiber erfolgt sowohl durch Peering-Vereinbarung als auch über Transit-Verbindungen. Kommerzielle Transitanbieter bieten ihren Kunden Zugriff auf bzw. Erreichbarkeit für das gesamte Internet. Im Gegensatz dazu wird durch...

During the last two decades, bundling has become a hot topic for Industrial Organization economists, mainly as a result of legal actions against Microsoft (Crampes and Hollander 2007). In this spirit, the literature has thus far focused on asymmetric settings where one firm holds a monopoly for...

We conduct oligopoly competition experiments with differentiated goods in discrete and continuous time. Continuous time experiments allow for real-time, asynchronous strategic interaction and are therefore argued to be a more realistic mode of interaction, particularly in the context of...

We investigate the strategic impact of flexible delivery frequencies on the competition of logistics service providers (LSPs) in a supply chain. LSPs compete for customers who choose an exclusive service provider based on their individual preference, prices and inventory costs. The service...

Although the regulation of access to an essential upstream resource is a perennial issue for policymakers and industry stakeholders, a set of new issues arises when there is more than one vertically integrated access provider such that competition at the wholesale level may emerge in addition to...

We investigate the effects of alternative open access regimes on market performance. In particular, by means of an economic laboratory experiment we compare the market outcomes under unregulated wholesale competition, under a price-fixing rule (where firms must maintain their wholesale price for...