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Import Competition and Exit in Business Services Sectors
Bombarda, Pamela; McCann, Fergal; Toubal, Farid - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
Business services firms are increasingly under pressure from foreign competition. We develop an oligopolistic … competition model that studies the effect of trade liberalization on exit and sectoral restructuring in the business services …
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Multilateral Subsidy Games
Leahy, Dermot; Neary, J Peter - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
profits in total, and/or strategic complements, raising rival profits at the margin. In both Cournot and Bertrand competition …, when spillovers are low and competition is intense (because goods are close substitutes), national …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662067
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Inefficient Diversification in Multimarket Oligopoly with Diseconomies of Scope
Dixon, Huw David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992
them to enter technologically related markets, thereby increasing competition. This strategic motive leads to inefficiency … in production, however, due to diseconomies of scope. This paper shows that the welfare gain from increased competition …
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Price Discrimination in Oligopoly: Evidence from Swedish Newspapers
Asplund, Björn Marcus; Eriksson, Rickard; Strand, Niklas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
This Paper provides an empirical examination of third-degree price discrimination in the Swedish newspaper industry. The results show that price discrimination is more prevalent in competitive markets and among newspapers with low market shares. This supports predictions from recent theoretical...
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Trading Market Access for Competition Policy Enforcement
Hoekman, Bernard; Saggi, Kamal - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
Motivated by discussions in the World Trade Organization (WTO) on multilateral disciplines with respect to competition … incentives for bilateral cooperation when the LDC uses transfers to ‘pay’ for competition enforcement by the DC. A comparison of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666806
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Strategic Public Provision of Local Inputs for Oligopolistic Firms in the Presence of Endogenous Location Choices
Walz, Uwe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996
We develop a model in which two regional governments compete for a mobile oligopolistic firm by publicly providing local inputs. The central mechanism of our model is the interaction of an agglomeration advantage (partial non-rivalness of the local input) and an agglomeration disadvantage (fixed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666937
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Managerial Incentives and Collusive Behaviour
Spagnolo, Giancarlo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
I characterize the effects of empirically observed managerial incentives on long-run oligopolistic competition. When …
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Organized Crime, Corruption and Punishment
Kugler, Maurice; Verdier, Thierry; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
We analyse an oligopoly model in which differentiated criminal organizations compete on criminal activities and engage …
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International Trade with Competitiveness Effects in R&D
Pires, Garcia; José, Armando - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
In an oligopoly trade model where firms engage in R&D, international differences in market size allow for the emergence …
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Weddings with Uncertain Prospects - Mergers under Asymmetric Information
Borek, Thomas; Bühler, Stefan; Schmutzler, Armin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
equilibria of merger games with simultaneous and sequential moves. The application of our framework to specific oligopoly models …
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