1Department of Medicine, Division of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Campus Charité Mitte, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany 2Neuroradiology Section, Department of Radiology, Campus Charité Mitte, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany 3Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Campus Virchow Klinikum, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany 4Depart...

Buyers’ Alliances for Bargaining Power by Suchan Chae and Paul Heidhues We provide a novel explanation as to why forming an alliance of buyers (or sellers) across separate markets can be advantageous when input prices are determined by bargaining. Our explanation helps to understand the prevalence of buyer cooperatives among small and medium sized firms.

1Novel Materials Group, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 10099 Berlin, Germany 2Department for Sample Environment, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, 14109 Berlin, Germany 3Paul-Drude-Institut für Festkörperelektronik, 10117 Berlin, Germany 4Ferdinand-Braun-Institut, Leibniz-Institut für Höchstfrequenztechnik, 12489 Berlin, Germany 5Nanostructured Materials, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 10099 Berlin, ...

Associated with Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography Christine Geffers, MD; Axel Kola, MD; Brar Piening, MD; Institute of Hygiene and Environmental Medicine, Charite University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Institute of Hygiene, Charite University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany; German National Reference Center for the Surveillance of Nosocomial Infections, Berlin, Germany and P...

1 Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany 2 Berlin Center for Advanced Neuroimaging, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany 3 Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany 4 Neuroscience and Behavioral Disorders Program, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore 5 Department of Psy...

Product Market Competition and Lobbying Coordination in the U.S. Mobile Telecommunications Industry* by Astrid Jung and Tomaso Duso This paper empirically investigates market behavior and firms’ lobbying in a unified structural setup. In a sequential game, where firms lobby for regulation before they compete in the product market, we derive a testable measure of lobbying coordination. Applying ...