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....

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Increasingly sophisticated machinery, short product life-cycles, and demanding user requirements have increased competition in the machine tool market. Because all machine tool companies have limited resources, they must seek competitive advantages. Strategic collaborations have become...

The aim of this study is to investigate how network effects affect the quality and price decisions of firms in a vertically differentiated market. As network effects increase, high-quality producers tend to raise quality while low-quality producers lower it. The degree of product differentiation...