CIG Working Papers

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00-18: Complementarities in Innovation Policy

Pierre Mohnen and Lars-Hendrik Röller

00-17: Policy-Motivated Candidates, Noisy Platforms, and Non-Robustness

Johan Lagerlof

00-16: Coexistence of Strategic Vertical Separation and Integration

Jos Jansen

00-15: Consumer Surplus vs. Welfare Standard in a Political Economy Model of Merger Control

Damien Neven and Lars-Hendrik Röller

00-14: Scope of Conflict in International Merger Control

Damien Neven and Lars-Hendrik Röller

00-13: Comparative Analysis of Litigation Systems: An Auction-Theoretic Approach

Michael Baye, Dan Kovenock and Casper de Vries

00-12: Market Structure, Bargaining, and Technology Choice

Roman Inderst and Christian Wey

00-11: Employers’ Associations, Industry-wide Unions, and Competition

Paul Heidhues

00-09: Efficiency Gains from Mergers

Lars-Hendrik Röller, Johan Stennek and Frank Verboven

00-08: Market Structure, Scale Economies, and Industry Performance

Rabah Amir

00-06: Hiding Information in Electoral Competition

Paul Heidhues and Johan Lagerlof

00-05: Who Decides to Regulate? Lobbying Activity in the U.S. Cellular Industry

Tomaso Duso

00-04: Security Needs and the Performance of the Defense Industry

Andreas Blume and Asher Tishler

00-03: Political Economy of Infrastructure Investment Allocation: Evidence from a Panel of Large German Cities

Achim Kemmerling and Andreas Stephan

00-02: Regional Infrastructure Policy and its Impact on Productivity: A Comparison of Germany and France

Stephanie Aubert and Andreas Stephan

00-01: Collective Wage Setting When Wages Are Generally Binding: An Antitrust Perspective

Justus Haucap, Uwe Pauly and Christian Wey

99-37: Demand for Customized Products, Production Flexibility, and Price Competition

William Novshek and Lynda Thoman

99-35: The Effects of Downstream Distributor Chains on Upstream Producer Entry: A Bargaining Perspective

Suchan Chae and Paul Heidhues

99-30: Regulating Complementary Input Supply: Production Cost Correlation and Limited Liability

Jos Jansen

99-29: Endogenous Switching Costs and the Incentive for High Quality Entry

Tomaso Duso

99-28: International Licensing and R&D Subsidy

Cuihong Fan and Zhentang Zhang

99-27: Provision of Social Goods and Soft Budget Constraints

Lars-Hendrik Röller and Zhentang Zhang

99-21: Multiproduct Competition, Learning by Doing and Price-Cost Margins over the Product Life Cycle: Evidence from the DRAM Industry

Ralph Siebert

99-20: Credible Vertical Preemption

Ralph Siebert

99-19: The Impact of R&D Subsidies on the Introduction of New Products by Incumbent Firms old title -(New Product Introduction by Incumbent Firms)

Ralph Siebert

99-18: Costly Information Acquisition and Delegation to a "Liberal" Central Banker

Johan Lagerlof

99-17: Testing Dynamic Oligopolistic Interaction: Evidence from the Semiconductor Industry

Christine Zulehner

99-15: A Political Economy Model of Infrastructure Allocation: An Empirical Assessment

Olivier Cadot, Lars-Hendrik Röller and Andreas Stephan

99-14: The Evolution of Price Discrimination in the European Car Market

Pinelopi Goldberg and Frank Verboven

99-13: Market Integration and Market Structure in the European Soft Drinks Industry: Always Coca-Cola?

Catherine Matraves

99-12: Incomplete Information in the Samaritan's Dilemma: The Dilemma (Almost) Vanishes

Johan Lagerlof

99-11: Strategic Information Revelation and Revenue Sharing in an R&D Race with Learning Labs

Jos Jansen

99-09: A Comparison of Multiple-Unit All-Pay and Winner-Pay Auctions Under Incomplete Information

Yasar Barut, Dan Kovenock and Charles Noussair

99-08: Standortwahl als Franchisingproblem

Justus Haucap and Christian Wey

99-07: Asymptotic Efficiency in Stackelberg Markets with Incomplete Information

Jianbo Zhang and Zhentang Zhang

99-06: The Incentives of Employers’ Associations to Raise Rivals’ Costs in the Presence of Collective Bargaining

Justus Haucap, Christian Wey and Uwe Pauly

99-05: Union Power and Product Market Competition: Evidence from the Airline Industry

Damien Neven, Lars-Hendrik Röller and Zhentang Zhang

99-02: Compatibility Investments in Duopoly with Demand Side Spillovers under Different Degrees of Cooperation

Christian Wey

99-01: Bargaining Power of a Coalition in Parallel Bargaining: Advantage of Multiple Cable System Operators

Suchan Chae and Paul Heidhues

98-17: Market Structure, R&D and Advertising in the Pharmaceutical Industry

Catherine Matraves

98-16: Econometric Analysis of Cattle Auctions

Christine Zulehner

98-15: The Incentives to Form Research Joint Ventures: Theory and Evidence

Lars-Hendrik Röller, Mihkel M. Tombak and Ralph Siebert

98-14: The Stability of Information Cascades: How Herd Behavior Breaks Down

Hans Mewis

98-13: Learning in Sender-Receiver Games

Andreas Blume, Douglas V. DeJong, George R. Neumann and Nathan E. Savin

98-12: An Experimental Investigation of Optimal Learning in Coordination Games

Andreas Blume and Uri Gneezy

98-11: Coordination and Learning with a Partial Language

Andreas Blume

98-8: Location Costs, Product Quality, and Implicit Franchise Contracts

Justus Haucap, Christian Wey and Jens Barmbold

98-7: Are We Better Off if Our Politicians Know How the Economy Works?

Johan Lagerlof

98-6: Lending Relationships in Germany: Empirical Results from Survey Data

Dietmar Harhoff and Timm Körting

98-2: Vertical Organization, Technology Flows and R&D Incentives: An Exploratory Analysis

Dietmar Harhoff

97-47: The Impact of Road Infrastructure on Productivity and Growth: Some Preliminary Results for the German Manufacturing Sector

Andreas Stephan

97-46: Zur Analyse von Gründungen und Schließungen auf Grundlage der Beschäftigtenstatistik (only available in German)

Lutz Bellmann, Dietmar Harhoff and Norbert Schulz

97-45: Are There Financing Constraints for R&D and Investment in German Manufacturing Firms?

Dietmar Harhoff

97-38: Union Power and Product Market Competition: Evidence from the Airline Industry

Damien Neven, Lars-Hendrik Röller and Zhentang Zhang

97-32: Survival of Newly Founded Businesses: A Log-Logistic Model Approach

Talat Mahmood

97-31: Capacity and Product Market Competition: Measuring Market Power in a "Puppy-Dog" Industry

Lars-Hendrik Röller and Robin Sickles

97-27: Exploring the Tail of Patented Invention Value Distributions

Dietmar Harhoff, Frederic M. Scherer and Katrin Vopel

97-26: Citation Frequency and the Value of Patented Innovation

Dietmar Harhoff, Francis Narin, Frederic M. Scherer and Katrin Vopel

97-25: Long Run Properties of Technical Efficiency in the U.S. Airline Industry

Ila M. Semenick Alam and Robin Sickles

97-24: Economic Incentives and International Trade

Dalia Marin and Monika Schnitzer

97-23: Project Monitoring and Banking Competition under Adverse Selection

Vesa Kanniainen and Rune Stenbacka

97-22: Consolidations and the Sequence of Acquisitions to Monopoly

Petri Lehto and Mihkel M. Tombak

97-20: Corporate Governance and Firm Strategy in the Pharmaceutical Industry

Steven Casper and Catherine Matraves

97-19: Career Concerns and the Acquisition of Firm-Specific Skills

Bernard Sinclair-Desgagné and Olivier Cadot

97-13: Capacity Choice and Duopoly Incentives for Information Sharing

William Novshek and Lynda Thoman

97-10: German Industrial Structure in Comparative Perspective (Only in German language!)

Catherine Matraves

97-9: Incentives to Innovate: A Structural Model of Oligopoly (available only in German!)

Dietmar Harhoff

97-6: Why Firms Form Research Joint Ventures: Theory and Evidence

Lars-Hendrik Röller, Mikhel M. Tombak and Ralph Siebert

97-3: Localized Competition, Multimarket Operation and Collusive Behavior

Frank Verboben

97-2: Testing for Monopoly Power when Products are Differentiated in Quality

Frank Verboben

96-20: Small Business Mortality in Germany: A Comparison Between Regions and Sectors

Josef Brüderl and Talat Mahmood

96-19: Survival Chances of Newly Founded Firms in Berlin: An Evaluation of Firm Registrations and Deregisterations from 1981-1990, Based on Data from Chamber of Commerce. (This paper is only in German!)

Talat Mahmood

96-16: Telecommunications Infrastructure and Economic Development: A Simultaneous Approach

Lars-Hendrik Röller and Leonard Waverman

96-13: State Aid, Industrial Restructuring and Privatization in the New German Länder: Competition Policy with Case Studies of the Shipbuilding and Synthetic Fibres Industries

Lars-Hendrik Röller and Christian Hirschhausen

96-3: The Impact of Research Joint Ventures on Firm Performance: An Empirical Assessment

Ralph Siebert