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Market Entry and Roll-out With Product Differentiation

Levine, Paul L; Rickman, Neil; Tzavara, Dionisia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

market with horizontal product differentiation when choosing its level of roll-out. The endogenous extent of entry influences … downstream retail prices; Bertrand or local monopoly pricing or a mixed strategy equilibrium may emerge. Importantly, entry may …

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Unbundling the incumbent: Evidence from UK broadband

Nardotto, Mattia; Valletti, Tommaso; Verboven, Frank - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

effect on broadband penetration, compared to those areas where the loops are not unbundled. LLU entry instead has a strongly …

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Entry and Regulation - Evidence from Health Care Professions

Schaumans, Catherine; Verboven, Frank - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

The health care professions in Europe have been subject to substantial entry and conduct regulation. Most notably … competition through geographic entry restrictions. We develop an entry model to study the direct impact of the regulations on the … representative for many other countries with geographic entry restrictions. We find that the entry decisions of pharmacies and …

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Asymmetric Information, Agency Costs and Innovative Entry

Audretsch, David B - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

The decision of how best to appropriate the value of new economic knowledge is reached by individuals within the context of the decision-making process embedded in the principal-agent model and applied to organizations. Because new economic knowledge is not only imperfect but also inherently...

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Competition vs. Regulation in Mobile Telecommunications

Stennek, Johan; Tangerås, Thomas P. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

This paper questions whether competition can replace sector-specific regulation of mobile telecommunications. We show that the monopolistic outcome prevails independently of market concentration when access prices are determined in bilateral negotiations. A light-handed regulatory policy can...

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GM Food Crop Technology: Implications For Sub-Saharan Africa

Anderson, Kym; Jackson, Lee Ann - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

The first generation of genetically modified (GM) crop varieties sought to increase farmer profitability through cost reductions or higher yields. The next generation of GM food research is focusing also on breeding for attributes of interest to consumers, beginning with ‘golden rice’, which...

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Price Competition, Innovation and Profitability: Theory and UK Evidence

Symeonidis, George - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

This Paper examines the effect of price competition on innovation, market structure and profitability in R&D-intensive industries. The theoretical predictions are tested using UK data on the evolution of competition, concentration, innovation counts and profitability over 1952-77. The...

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An Applied Econometrician's View of Large Company Performance

Geroski, Paul A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

This paper contains a brief survey of recent empirical work on the performance of large companies. It tries to pull together the literature in the form of six stylized facts, illustrating them with data drawn from a single sample. The paper concludes by highlighting the issues which are thrown...

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Innovation scoring no sector de serviços de saúde: um estudo de caso [Innovation scoring in the sector health services: a case study]

Maia, Maria João - Centro de Investigação em Inovação Empresarial e do … - 2011

Nowadays, innovation has been understood as an overall strategy for a company. Thus, it should remain adapted, flexible and responsive to the market changes, where the company operates. For a company to succeed in the innovation process, it should be clear about their position on this issue....

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Identifying Industry Margins with Unobserved Price Constraints: Structural Estimation on Pharmaceuticals

Dubois, Pierre; Lasio, Laura - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

We provide a method allowing to identify margins in an oligopoly price competition game when prices may not be freely chosen in some markets, for example due to regulation. We use our identification strategy to study the effects of regulatory constraints in the pharmaceutical industry, which is...

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