economies have tended to emphasize the overriding importance of capital market competition, but theoretical considerations and … external reforms. Empirically, the paper examines progress towards enterprise restructuring in Eastern Germany and Poland … first appears, however, since even in Poland there has been active competition policy, some direct industrial restructuring …

results are robust to the introduction of asymmetry in network needs across downstream firms, imperfect downstream competition …

and competition policy. We illustrate them with an analysis of US freight railroads for the period 1978-2001 and find both …

findings are (a) DO is affected by competition; (b) US-owned firms are much more likely to introduce DO relative to foreign …

Using a general two-stage framework, this paper gives sufficient conditions for increasing competition to have negative … relatively narrow definitions of increasing competition. The paper also shows that competition is more likely to increase the … investments of leaders than those of laggards. When R&D-spillovers are strong, competition is less likely to increase investments …

We develop a model of competition between retailer chains with a structural estimation of the demand and supply in the … can serve as a differentiation tool for the retailers in order to soften price competition. They may affect the marginal … simultaneous competition game in brand offer and price between retailers to identify marginal costs. After estimation by simulated …