In this paper we investigate the connection between cost asymmetries and the sustainability of collusion within the context of a infinitely repeated Cournot duopoly. We assume that firms are able to coordinate on distinct output levels than the unrestricted joint profit maximization outcome. We...

En este documento de trabajo se estudia la interacción con los consumidores por parte de los detallistas consolidados en los entornos convencionales, en el contexto de la comercialización electrónica de productos de experiencia. Los resultados obtenidos a través del desarrollo de un modelo...

Este documento analiza la relación entre estabilidad financiera y concentración bancaria en la economía colombiana para el periodo 1994-2009. Para evaluar esta relación, se construyó un panel dinámico desbalanceado en el que se relacionan indicadores de estabilidad financiera y...

Firms that lay far behind the technological frontier have the most to gain from imitating the technology or management practices of others. That some firms converge relatively slowly to the productivity frontier suggests the existence of factors that cause them to under-invest in their...

This paper rigorously investigates the determinants of bank competition for 146 countries over the sample period 1999–2011. The results employing both the Lerner index and the Boone indicator, reveal the distinctive characteristics of the competition drivers across different income groups of...

This paper proposes a real option capacity expansion model for power generation with several technologies that differ in operation and investment costs. The economy is assumed perfectly competitive and the instantaneous payoff accruing from the generation system is the instantaneous welfare...

The purpose of this article is to elaborate a theoretical model that has adherence with the airlines companies¡¯ experiences. The objective of this paper is to help in the search of the necessary conditions to overcome the competition with appropriate pricing and consistent profits in this...

Car sharing seems to have the necessary characteristics to compete in the fulfilment of the gap between mobility offer and demand at international level considering that an offer exclusively based on collective transport systems is not appropriate to satisfy some of the modern transport needs....

Muslim Markets "halal markets" in Europe are witnessing today intense activity and remarkable expansion, prompting many researchers and academics to engage in and adjust the rules of Islamic marketing in accordance with the Western reality and to compete with the traditional capitalist markets....

Why do some people become entrepreneurs (and others don't)? Why are firms so heterogeneous, and many firms so small? To start, the paper briefly documents evidence from the empirical literature that the relationship between entrepreneurship and education is Ushaped; that many entrepreneurs start a...