There might be various aims for the vertical separation in railways such as the one instituted by the European … Commission. One aim might be to improve efficiency, another one might be to introduce competition, as a mean, precisely to … railways undertakings. So a dispute resolution system is necessary. First, this dispute resolution system is costly and thus …

, all cotton sector stakeholders do recognize that there is a big issue of excessive competition from a great number of … nevertheless will remain a short term one if no regulation is provided to prevent the market development from excessive and unfair … competition. The case analysed is a good illustration of the shortfalls of unregulated competition. It is however ineffective to …

between competition as an ideal and the feasibility of competition in the railroad sector; this distinction is implicit in … Dupuit's work, but it helps us to grasp that, in his opinion, unlimited competition is not possible in the railroads and that …

In this paper we study an entrant's incentives to build a network infrastructure, when there is an initial phase of … service-based competition where it leases access to the incumbent's infrastructure. We build a model in which the phase of … service-based competition allows the entrant to step into the market by progressively acquiring market experience. We show …

determination of the number of producers and products over the business cycle. Economic expansions induce higher entry rates by … prospective entrants subject to irreversible investment costs. The sluggish response of the number of producers (due to sunk entry … decisions, producer entry, and the allocation of labor across sectors. The model performs at least as well as the benchmark real …

How a Japanese company managed a distributors network in China. The study describes some changes in firm strategies …, how these changes were implemented. The result is a multi-strategies network with different dependance links between …

see how different dedicated network configurations affect firm performance, taking into account both the performance …