scholarly journals When switching costs cause market power: Rubber processing in Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Kopp
Keyword(s):  
Market Power ◽  
Switching Costs

scholarly journals Enhancing market power by reducing switching costs

2012 ◽  
Vol 114 (3) ◽  
pp. 359-361 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Bouckaert ◽  
Hans Degryse ◽  
Thomas Provoost
Keyword(s):  
Market Power ◽  
Switching Costs

scholarly journals Enhancing Market Power by Reducing Switching Costs

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Bouckaert ◽  
Hans Degryse ◽  
Thomas Provoost
Keyword(s):  
Market Power ◽  
Switching Costs

Erratum to “Enhancing market power by reducing switching costs” [Econom. Lett. 109 (2010) 131–133]

2012 ◽  
Vol 114 (3) ◽  
pp. 358
Author(s):  
Jan Bouckaert ◽  
Hans Degryse ◽  
Thomas Provoost
Keyword(s):  
Market Power ◽  
Switching Costs

scholarly journals Competition, Monopoly Maintenance, and Consumer Switching Costs

2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 230-255 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hodaka Morita ◽  
Michael Waldman
Keyword(s):  
Market Power ◽  
Durable Goods ◽  
Switching Costs ◽  
Consumer Welfare ◽  
Consumer Switching Costs ◽  
Consumer Switching ◽  
Significant Attention

Significant attention has been paid to why a durable goods producer with little or no market power would monopolize the maintenance market for its own product. This paper investigates an explanation for the practice based on consumer switching costs and the decision concerning maintaining versus replacing used units. In our explanation, if the maintenance market is not monopolized, consumers sometimes maintain used units that are more efficiently replaced. In turn, monopolizing the maintenance market avoids this inefficiency. In contrast to most previous explanations for the practice, in our explanation, the practice increases both social and consumer welfare. (JEL D42, D43, D82, K21, L12, L42)

scholarly journals Enhancing market power by reducing switching costs

2010 ◽  
Vol 109 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Bouckaert ◽  
Hans Degryse ◽  
Thomas Provoost
Keyword(s):  
Market Power ◽  
Switching Costs

Market Investigations

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Market Power ◽  
Network Effects ◽  
Switching Costs ◽  
Scale Economies ◽  
Economic Sectors ◽  
Dominant Firms ◽  
Competition Laws ◽  
Laws And Regulations

In many economic sectors – the digital industries being first and foremost – the market power of dominant firms has been steadily increasing and is rarely challenged by competitors. Existing competition laws and regulations have been unable to make markets more contestable. The book argues that a new competition tool is needed: market investigations. This tool allows authorities to intervene in markets which do not function as they should, due to market features such as network effects, scale economies, switching costs, and behavioural biases. The book explains the role of market investigations, assesses their use in the few jurisdictions where they exist, and discusses how they should be designed. In so doing, it provides an invaluable and timely instrument to both practitioners and academics.

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