. Competition from venture capitalists increases corporate venturing activity, the salaries of potential entrepreneurs, and total …

develops a simple model for analyzing the interaction between gas release and capacity investment programs as tools to improve … release part of its gas to a marketer complements a program of investment in transport capacity dedicated to imports by the … marketer, at a regulated transport charge, of competitively-priced gas. First, we examine the case where transport capacity is …

This paper analyses the impact of competition among downstream firms on an upstream firm's payoff and on its incentive … to vertically integrate when firms on both segments negotiate optimal contracts. We argue that tougher competition … firm is better off encouraging competition when the downstream firms have high bargaining power. We derive implications on …

The consideration of the competition in the spatial construction of the new entrant’s retailing network The aim of this …

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 …

methodology to the rejection of monopolistic competition as a valid assumption, thus elaborating a point made earlier by George … Stigler in 'Monopolistic Competition in Retrospect' (1949). Both failed to demonstrate that the alternative assumption of … perfect competition would perform better under falsificationist rules. These rules themselves are an expression of the …