Martin Obradovits,Philipp Plaickner
Martin Obradovits
Especially in many online markets, consumers can readily observe prices, but may need to inspect products further to assess their suitability. We study the effects of product differentiation and search costs on competition and market outcom...
Alper Demirdogen
Alper Demirdogen
This paper estimates the effect of a sugar-factory privatization policy on sugar beet acreages in Turkey. It finds that sugar beet acreages decreased by more than 15% due to the 2018 privatization of several sugar factories. Farmers decreas...
John T Scott
John T Scott
This paper explains that when there is great uncertainty about which elements of knowledge must be combined to make an invention, the likelihood of invention increases markedly-by many orders of magnitude-when there are numerous diverse res...
Thomas Buettner,Daniel Coublucq,Rossitza Kotzeva et al.
Thomas Buettner et al.
The Directorate General for Competition at the European Commission enforces competition law in the areas of antitrust, merger control, and State aid. After providing a general presentation of the role of the Chief Competition Economist's te...
Stefano Colombo,Luigi Filippini,Debapriya Sen
Stefano Colombo
We consider the problem of patent licensing in a Cournot duopoly in which the innovator (patentee) is one of the firms and it is capacity constrained. We show that when the patentee can produce a relatively small (relatively large) quantity...
Economics at the FCC 2021-22: 5G Spectrum Auctions, Affordable Connectivity, Broadband Data Collection, and Merger Review [0.03%]
2021-22年FCC的经济学：5G频谱拍卖，可承担的连通性，宽带数据收集和合并审查
Joanna Fister,Catherine Matraves,Martha Stancill et al.
Joanna Fister et al.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is responsible for regulation in the communications marketplace and for management of the nation's non-federal radio spectrum. During the past year, FCC economists continued to work on auctions so...
Adam Cellan-Jones,Hussein Farook,Riccardo Ferrari et al.
Adam Cellan-Jones et al.
This article discusses three important pieces of work that the Competition and Markets Authority has completed over the last year. The first two are market studies: The Mobile Ecosystems Market Study was launched over concerns that Apple an...
What can be Expected from Mergers After Deregulation? The Case of the Long-Distance Bus Industry in France [0.03%]
deregulation后的并购能期望什么？以法国长途客车行业为例
Thierry Blayac,Patrice Bougette
Thierry Blayac
This study estimates the competitive effects of horizontal mergers in the French long-distance bus industry. We examine the two mergers that followed the 2015 Deregulation Act (the Macron Law); we use an exclusive and exhaustive dataset tha...
Eleanor M Fox
Eleanor M Fox
Africa has the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). The agreement will lower tariffs and facilitate internal market trade on the continent, and policy makers hope that it will help lift 30 million people out of poverty. A competiti...
Tembinkosi Bonakele,Francis Kariuki
Tembinkosi Bonakele