The emerging field of corporate demography views corporations and industries in a similar way to human or animal individuals and groups. This review essay examines what economists, particularly industrial organization specialists, and corporate demographers can learn from each other. The two...

In our study of four industries, we confirmed that there is a relationship between the stage through which the industry is going, thus its level of turbulence, and the nature of cooperative strategies. More specifically it appears in situations of industry reconfiguration, that the smaller, more...

Built on the location model, this paper studies the rivalry of two firms in an industry through two-part tariffs. It is found that kinky profit functions are responsible for the coincidence of imperfectly competitive equilibrium and cartelization outcome. A duopoly likely results in higher entry...

Built on the location model, this paper studies the rivalry of two firms in an industry through two-part tariffs. It is found that kinky profit functions are responsible for the coincidence of imperfectly competitive equilibrium and cartelization outcome. A duopoly likely results in higher entry...

We study an endogenous business cycle model with Cournotian monopolistic competition and an endogenous number of firms in each sector. Our model is a simple general equilibrium macroeconomic model introducing overlapping generations both of consumers and firms. Firms strategically decide on...

We analyse a Ramsey economy when net investment is constrained to be non negative. We prove existence of a competitive equilibrium when utility need not hold. The analysis is carried out by means of direct and technically standard strategy.

We present a general equilibrium model with oligopsonistic market structure in one of the sectors. Buyers of inputs can set the price of inputs by being involved in rent seeking activities. The framework developed is applied to the Bulgarian economy in particular to the agro-food chain.

We endogenise the objective of a monopoly firm in a general equilibrium context. Within this framework a distributional conflict occurs between shareholders, depending on their endowments. Following a political-economy approach and using voting theory, the production plan of the firm is...

The main objective of this paper is to analyze the links between product market competition, innovation and growth. We capture the idea that firms innovate in order to try to escape - albeit temporarily - from the pressure of competition exerted on them by their rivals. At each date, an industry...

This paper aims at measuring the impact of competition on productivity growth of the Tunisian manufacturing sector at the firm level. To investi-gate the impact of competition on productivity we use two procedures. The first one is a two-step procedure; the second one is a one step procedure. We...