This article quantifies the importance of market structure variables in determining the allocative efficiency losses from oligopoly power in the food and tobacco industries. Empirical findings indicate that these losses are likely to be higher in markets characterized by high R&D and advertising...

There are very few industries that can attract the attention of Congress, multiple federal and state agencies, consumer groups, economists, antitrust lawyers, the business community, farmers, ranchers, and academics as the agriculture workshops have. Of course, with intense interest from...

This comment was filed with the Department of Justice Antitrust Division on December 31, 2009, as "Comments Regarding Agriculture and Antitrust Enforcement Issues in Our 21st Century Economy" in response to the DOJ/USDA request for public comments for the agencies' joint workshops on antitrust...

English Abstract. This paper considers the historical overview of the researches of the market structures in the economy of the former Yugoslavia. These researches had no long and continuous tradition, otherwise the making of an open market oriented economy as the goal of official politics early...

Serbian: У раду се анализирају нови приступи оцењивању степена концентрације и конкуренције. Као пример одабран је сектор осигурања у Србији, а за променљиву на...

The TV industry is a two-sided market where both advertisers and viewers buy access to the programs offered by competing TV channels. Under the current market structure advertising prices are typically set by TV channels while viewer prices are set by distributors (e.g. cable operators). The...

In the European Union, energy markets are increasingly being liberalized. A case in point is the European natural gas industry. The general expectation is that more competition will lead to lower prices and higher volumes, and hence higher welfare. This paper indicates that this might not happen...

This paper provides a conceptual framework of multilateral bargaining in a bilaterally oligopolistic industry to analyze the motivations for horizontal mergers, technology choice, and their welfare implications. We first analyze the implication of market structure for the distribution of...

Russian: Основы использования ИКТ в Сербии уже заложены, но электронный бизнес-процесс пока не сильно развит. Системных исследований влияния Интернета и ИКТ на...

This aim of this paper is twofold. First it examines the determinants of acquisitions and divestitures of Dutch firms in the period 1996-2004. Second, it investigates the impact of acquisitions and divestitures on the firm’s innovative output performance. An econometric model is specified and...