This paper presents a new method that estimates the relative seller-concentration of an industry over both domestic and foreign sellers in 14 OECD countries, on the basis of a joint Structure-Performance and Brander-Krugman type model. Results suggest that overall seller-concentration is...

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Competition policy plays an increasing role worldwide, both at the national and international level. The number of countries with competition laws has increased to about seventy as of 1999, against less than thirty only three decades earlier. One of the many reasons that lie behind this renewed...

In this paper, we simulate the impact of removing all tariffs on imports under both competitive and Cournot oligopoly market structures with and without barriers to entry and exit.

This paper constitutes the first research that examines the historical origin of the debate about "U.S. competitiveness". It takes a special interest in a "myth" widely spread that concern over "U.S. competitiveness" arose between the beginning of the late 1970s and 1986. In fact, these...

The study explores important trends in consumption patterns in European Union(EU) markets and assesses the degree to which these patterns offer opportunities for African exporters.