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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124418
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083592
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662356
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005661431
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136521
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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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