importance of chains in bringing these services to market. Service chains provide a puzzle because they take a long time to …

market expansion and fixed costs. In the coordinated entry model the upstream firm sets a market-specific wholesale price to … instruments to target local markets. It sets a uniform wholesale price, and restricts entry in markets where market expansion is … elsewhere. Furthermore, introducing market-specific wholesale prices would implement the first-best, but the profit increase …

differentiated product market to be introduced. This contribution allows price-cost margins to be recovered from estimates of demand … shift the marginal costs of production and distribution. This method is applied empirically to study the retail market …

strategies on a differentiated product market. We consider in particular two types of non linear pricing relationships, one where … supposed to shift the marginal costs of production and distribution. We apply empirically this method to study the market for …

seems to deepen retail segmentation by inducing potential adopters (e.g. supermarkets) to exit the market and/or by …