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The article examines a differentiated-products duopoly model where the firms make entry decisions to two markets and … then choose prices. The effects of product differentiation and entry costs are analyzed in two games: with and without … price discrimination between the markets. Allowing price discrimination encourages more entry and tends to reduce prices and …
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This paper examines competition in the liberalized natural gas market. Each .firm has zero marginal cost core capacity, due to long term contracts with take or pay obligations, and additional capacity at higher marginal costs. The market is decentralized and the firms decide which customers to...
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In this paper we present an experiment in which we test the effects of sequential entry on the stability of collusion … makes collusion harder to sustain. In this study, we explore to what extent collusion can be upheld with exogenous entry … prior to entry. We find that collusion is indeed easier to sustain in the latter case than in groups starting large. We …
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This paper examines the effect of entry of large foreign retailers on local employment at the city level. Using a panel … data for the period 2000-2006, we find that entry of large retailers largely increases employment in wholesale and retail … sector and other related sector in the year of entry. The positive effect on employment in wholesale and retail sector …
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of foreign entry on the productivity growth of domestic firms. In the face of foreign entry, domestic firms exhibit …. Our empirical results confirm that foreign entry indeed generates strong heterogeneous growth patterns among domestic …
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organizational knowledge. Indeed, in addition to expanding the range of products, entry can first create more competition, lower … formal may also have important effects on GDP growth. This chapter presents some stylized facts about firms' entry and exit … and business environment in Tunisia. Data used to analyze patterns of entry and exit in Tunisian manufacturing industries …
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The paper extends a theoratical framework to analyze the impact of R&D spillovers on entry and the resulting …
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and workers and consumers on the other side. In case of threat of market entry, the public (private) monopolist may … the EB agenda as a strategic tool to deter entry, while an incumbent private company can use it. An opposite result holds … when EB is the established practice in the industry: the incumbent public company can use RTM to deter entry, while the …
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encourage entry in government procurement auctions and thus increase competition. …
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of innovations introduced by entrepreneurs. Using internationally comparable data on European countries, entry and exit …
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