This paper investigates the impact of technical progress on the relationship between competition an investment. Using a model of oligopoly competition with di¤erentiated products where firms invest to reduce their marginal cost of production, I find that technical progress, which increases the...

This paper investigates the impact of technical progress on the relationship between competition an investment. Using a model of oligopoly competition with differentiated products where firms invest to reduce their marginal cost of production, I find that technical progress, which increases the...

In this paper, we address the issue of the appropriate market structure in European mobile markets by presenting empirical evidence on the effect of the number of MNO on investment. Using a structural entry model based on a country-level dataset of 28 European countries, we find that, in average...

We consider a horizontally and vertically differentiated duopoly model in order to analyse both intra- and inter-platform competition in a fully covered broadband access market (copper-copper, copper-FTTH and FTTH-FTTH competitions). The model is purely static and does not address dynamic...