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Innovation is the major instigator in competitive industry. The competition for innovation is traditionally analyzed … account the case of the telecommunications' sector in Senegal, we try to understand the motivations of the incumbent firm …
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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 … that the acquisition of experience in the phase of service-based competition delays the entrant's investment when the …
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This paper considers a model of two interconnected networks with different qualities. There are call externalities in the sense that consumers value calls they send and receive. Networks compete in two part tariffs. We show that call externalities create private incentives for each competitor to...
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We propose a model of two-tier competition between vertically integrated firms and unintegrated downstream firms. We … welfare. We obtain that these partial foreclosure equilibria are more likely to exist when downstream competition is fierce …. We then use our model to assess the impact of several regulatory tools in the telecommunications industry. …
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traffic. Despite their importance, economic models and competition structures for search engines are not widely understood …
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that analyses bend to overvalue the impact of regulations on the cost-price margin in telecommunications for MENA countries …
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In this paper we consider a simple model of horizontal differentiation and derive the closed form solutions for the level of the variables in the decentralized economy and in the social planner case. This enables us to analyze consumers' welfare as a function of the parameter representing market...
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number of agents because competition reduces the agents' informational monopoly power. However, this environment also … tendency to choose more 'generous' (and more efficient) contract menus over time. We find that competition leads to a … substantially higher probability of trade, and that, overall, competition between agents generates the most efficient outcomes. …
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According to a recent literature, the positive effect of competition is supposed to be growing with the proximity to … the technological frontier. Using a variety of indicators, the paper tests the effect of competition and regulation on … 1979-2003. Results show no evidence of a positive effect of competition growing with the proximity to the frontier. Two …
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competition on R&D to the cost of innovation. The effect of competition on R&D is an inverted U-shape. However, the shape is … flatter and competition policy is therefore less relevant for innovation when innovations are relatively costly. Intuitively …
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