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Game of Platforms: Strategic Expansion in Two-Sided Markets
Bar-Gill, Sagit - NET Institute - 2013
Online platforms, such as Google, Facebook, or Amazon, are constantly expanding their activities, while increasing the overlap in their service offering. In this paper, we study the scope and overlap of online platforms' activities, when they are endogenously determined. We model an expansion...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010905475
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Microeconomic Evidence of Creative Destruction in Industrial and Developing Countries
Bartelsman, Eric J.; Haltiwanger, John; Scarpetta, Stefano - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
time effects. All countries display a massive reallocation of resources, with the entry and exit of many firms in all … market contestability. There are also large differences across groups of countries. While entry and exit rates are fairly … similar across industrial countries, post entry performance differs markedly between Europe and the U.S., a potential …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255936
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Strategic Advantage and the Optimal Exercise of Entry Options
Perotti, Enrico C; Rossetto, Silvia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
We investigate the timing and the valuation of strategic investment aimed at enhancing entry opportunities in related … market segments. As demand is uncertain, entry options should be exercised at the optimal time, trading off the market share … gain against the option to wait until more information is revealed, while anticipating competitors' entry behaviour. When …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662306
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Restructuring And Productivity Growth In UK Manufacturing
Disney, Richard F; Haskel, Jonathan; Heden, Ylva - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
We analyse productivity growth in UK manufacturing 1980-92 using the newly available ARD panel of establishments drawn from the Census of Production. We examine the relative importance of 'internal' restructuring (such as new technology and organizational change) and 'external' restructuring...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666830
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Supermarkets and Planning Regulation
Griffith, Rachel; Harmgart, Heike - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
We are interested in evaluating the impact of restrictive planning regulation on entry into the UK grocery retail …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005788990
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Imperfect Competition, Market Size and Firm Turnover
Asplund, Björn Marcus; Nocke, Volker - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
that entry and exit rates are positively correlated across industries. Our objective is to investigate the effect of sunk … costs and, in particular, market size on entry and exit rates. We analyse a stochastic dynamic model of a monopolistically … show existence and uniqueness of a stationary equilibrium with simultaneous entry and exit: efficient firms survive while …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136712
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The Survival of New Plants: Start-up Conditions and Post-entry Evolution
Guimaraes, Paulo; Mata, José; Portugal, Pedro - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995
, this being particularly relevant to de novo entrants as compared to entry by established firms. Current size is also found … differences, past growth matters for survival suggesting a partial adjustment process for firm size in the post entry period …. Finally, new plants are more likely to live longer if they enter growing industries or industries with little entry activity. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005067401
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Market Entry in E-Commerce
Kasy, Maximilian; Kummer, Michael - NET Institute - 2008
We analyze the behavior of start-ups in e-commerce, namely on Austria's leading price-comparison-site, a multi-product environment with almost complete information. We use weekly panel data on price-quotes of digicams, Audio/HiFi-equipment and hardware. We furthermore use advanced estimation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005459401
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THE EFFECT OF ENTRY AND MARKET STRUCTURE ON CELLULAR PRICING TACTICS
Seim, Katja; Viard, V. Brian - NET Institute - 2003
We test the effect of entry on the tariff choices of incumbent cellular firms. We relate the change in the breadth of … from personal communications services (PCS) firms. Entry by PCS competitors differed across geographic markets due to the … upgrade their technology from the old analog technology to the new digital technology in markets with more entry, suggesting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005585454
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Quantifying the Benefits of Entry into Local Phone Service,
Economides, Nicholas; Viard, V. Brian; Seim, Katja - NET Institute - 2007
welfare effects of entry into residential local telephone service in New York State using household-level data from September …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005622691