Are Start‐Up Acquisitions by Dominant Firms Driving Innovation or Killing Competition?
ABSTRACT This paper develops a sequential model to examine start‐up acquisitions in markets with network externalities, incorporating a pre‐entry strategic buyout option that allows the incumbent to integrate the start‐up's innovation, followed by post‐entry expenditure on coordination advertising, and defensive pricing strategies.
Adele Whelan, Kate Hynes
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Demand‐Driven Mergers: Advertising, Differentiation, and Welfare
ABSTRACT We consider mergers that induce demand changes. We study the firms' incentives to submit a merger request and the competition authority's decision to approve the request. We show that merger‐induced demand changes help expand settings where the interests of firms and competition authority align, whereas contexts where their interests are ...
Felix Munoz‐Garcia +2 more
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Supply chain carbon reduction considering consumer skepticism and blockchain technology under the cap-and-trade policy. [PDF]
Yuan PP, Wang Q.
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Asymmetric Dishonesty in Markets: A Field Experiment on Male Sellers and Buyer Gender
ABSTRACT Dishonest behavior is a pervasive phenomenon that imposes substantial economic and social costs on society. While the literature extensively documents gender differences in who lies, far less attention has been paid to whether sellers discriminate in their dishonesty based on the gender of the buyer.
Zeev Shtudiner, Offer Moshe Shapir
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Shared energy storage planning based on the adjustable potential of data center based on visual IOT platform. [PDF]
Su L +6 more
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Countervailing Powers: Labor Unions Against the Buyer Power of Walmart Supercenters. [PDF]
Choper J, Lehner L, Parolin Z.
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Resilience through resistance: the role of worker agency in navigating algorithmic control. [PDF]
Williams M, Rani U.
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Contractualist Moral Cognition: From the Normative to the Descriptive at Three Levels of Analysis. [PDF]
Le Pargneux A.
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