at the retail level. A rapid price decline and a decline in revenues followed. Increased retail competition eventually … be justified on the basis of a lack of competition. …

In 2000, there were as many countries served by a single mobile network as by network competition. Today, only 30 … low coverage, inefficient duplication of costs and lack of competition. To date, the authors are not aware of such single … light on the expected performance of single wholesale networks. The key result is that countries with network competition …

Much of the current policy and scientific debate regarding territorial development focuses on territorial competition …, which is a result of the outspread of competition (the centerpiece in classical and neoclassical political economy) over … many aspects of other disciplines except economics, including geographical science. Territorial competition as a concept …

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 … competition that maximizes investment of the industry. This feature holds also for consumer surplus and Welfare. In the model …

increasing offshoring activity increases competition in the final goods market, leading to a progressive vertical disintegration … of the supply chains. Initially, the firms that decide to explore offshoring potential choose integration. As competition … fully domestic supply chains, the increasing competition promotes a sequential disintegration of the domestic intermediate …

specialization/complexity effect, on the one hand, and the competition effect, on the other hand. How the interaction between these … of competition, remains unaffected by entry, as well as by market-size shocks. As a consequence, the competition effect …: (i) a competition effect, which stems from the market interactions between producers of intermediate inputs, and (ii) a …