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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 …
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Network sharing agreements have become increasingly widespread in mobile telecommunications markets. They carry undeniable advantages to operators and consumers alike, but also the potential for consumer harm. Not all NSAs are created equal: the assessment of the balance of harm and benefits to...
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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 …
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The present study aims to highlight the main models for evaluating territorial competitiveness used at international and European level starting from the following premise: despite the difficulties encountered in the process of defining and understanding the competitiveness term and of numerous...
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-as then firms want to limit the competition in the toll stage by setting lower capacities-or when firms set capacities one … capacities. In our Stackelberg competition, the firms that act last have few if any capacity decisions to influence. Hence, they … are more concerned with the toll competition substage, and set a higher volume/capacity ratio than the public operator …
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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 …
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We develop a theory of economic disintegration that features both endogenously formed tax and trade policies. We show very generally that the economic disintegration of a country from an economic union leads to a deeper integration of international trade institutions. Moreover, we set up a...
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Benefit from the advantage of externalities, urban agglomerations are playing more and more important roles in regional economic development. However, present literature failed to distinguish the differences between urban agglomerations' pecuniary externality and technology externality. In this...
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Non-controlling minority shareholdings in rivals (NCMS) lower the sustainability of collusion under a wide variety of circumstances. Nevertheless, NCMS are sometimes deemed to facilitate collusion, in particular if the level of NCMS is exogenous. The present paper endogenizes firms' choice of...
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We investigate the trade-off between financial stability and competition policy by focusing on the merger of ABN AMRO … products using a random-coefficients logit model. On the supply side we assume Bertrand Nash competition in a multiproduct …
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