Both product differentiation through quality and capacity commitment have been shown to relax price competition … then commit to capacity and finally compete in price. We show that in equilibrium, firms differentiate their products less … stage where capacity are chosen. Furthermore if the cost of quality is low, capacity pre-commitment completely eliminates …

developed by Hotelling. Firms choose capacities in the first stage and then compete in price. We show that capacity …. The foundation of this result is that capacity precommitment enables firms to take advantage of the local monopoly … structure inherent to the Hotelling model. If furthermore the installation cost for capacity is one fourth of the transportation …

-use efficiency; • productive social safety nets to protect poor and vulnerable groups, especially women and children, to ensure their …

capacity will be lost in the next 25–50 years unless measures are taken to control sedimentation in reservoirs; approximately 2 …

fishing to aquaculture. Fishing and aquaculture exploit and alter the biodiversity on which they are based, each in different … but convergent ways. Fishing harvests a much larger range of biodiversity at ecosystem, species and genetic levels than … aquaculture. Nearly 400 aquatic species are cultured and more than 5000 species captured in fisheries. Aquaculture and fishing …

-allocation of water to agriculture and other uses. However, recent transformations in the agriculture sector (e.g. water efficiency …

assumptions about the capacity of marine systems to sustain large-scale taking, especially when coupled with drastic habitat … capacity to find, extract and transport marine life to distant markets generally exceeds the capacity of the exploited species …