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Time-limited loyalty rewards

Ramon Caminal

Most loyalty programs place tight restrictions on the timing of redemption of rewards. The goal of this paper is to understand the motivation...

Under/over-investment and early renegotiation in public-private partnerships

Annalisa Vinella

We consider a public-private partnership (PPP) in an infrastructure project, which requires specialized expertise during the construction...

Input Price Discrimination, Demand Forms, and Welfare

Germain Gaudin, Romain Lestage

We analyse the effects of input price discrimination in the canonical model where an upstream monopolist sells to downstream firms with...

Consumer Information and Price Transmission: Empirical Evidence

Jens-Peter Loy, Dieter Pennerstorfer, Daniela Rroshi, Christoph Weiss, Biliana Yontcheva

We investigate how consumer information affects price adjustment in the Austrian retail gasoline market. Our measure of consumer information...

A Structural Approach to Market Definition with an Application to the Hospital Industry

Martin S. Gaynor, Samuel A. Kleiner, William B. Vogt

Market definition is common in merger analysis, and often the decisive factor in antitrust cases. This has been particularly relevant in the hospital industry, where many merger challenges have...

Bertrand Competition with an Asymmetric No-discrimination Constraint

Jan Bouckaert, Hans Degryse, Theon Dijk

Regulators and competition authorities often prevent firms with significant market power, or dominant firms, from practicing price discrimination. The goal of such an asymmetric no-discrimination...

Corporate Leniency Programs when Firms have Private Information: The Push of Prosecution and the Pull of Pre-emption

Joseph E. Harrington

A corporate leniency program provides relief from government penalties to the first member of a cartel to cooperate with the authorities. This study explores the incentives to apply for leniency...

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