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Competition in the service sector and the performances of manufacturing firms: Does liberalization matter?

Forlani, Emanuele - 2010

Services form an increasing proportion of the inputs used in manufacturing. We explore empirically whether competition …-data for services, we calculate proxies for competition in services, and then use Input-Output matrices to link services to … manufacturing sectors. we find that there is a positive and significant relation between the extent of competition and firms …

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Competition and trust: Evidence from German car manufacturers

Felli, Leonardo; Koenen, Johannes; Stahl, Konrad O. - 2011

We explore the determinants and effects of trust relationships between upstream suppliers and downstream producers. Using unique survey data on individual supplier-buyer relationships in the German automotive industry, we show, by means of different measures of supplier-buyer trust, that higher...

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Trust, Investment and Competition : Theory and Evidence from German Car Manufacturers

Calzolari, Giacomo - 2019

quality - but also with more competition among suppliers. Both associations hold only for parts involving comparatively … relationships involving higher trust, buyers are able to induce higher investment and more intense competition among suppliers - but …

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Incomplete property rights and overinvestment

Amegashie, J. Atsu - 2009

I consider a model in which an asset owner must decide how much to invest in his asset mindful of the fact that an encroacher's valuation of the asset is increasing in the asset owner's investment. Due to incomplete property rights, the encroacher and asset owner engage in a contest over the...

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Competition and relationship lending: Friends or foes?

Presbitero, Andrea F.; Zazzaro, Alberto - 2010

local credit markets. We provide evidence that marginal increases in interbank competition are detrimental to relationship … technologies are al-ready widely in use in the market by a large group of small mutual banks, an increase in competition may drive …

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Product market competition, investment and employment-abundant versus job-poor growth : a real options perspective

Chen, Yu-Fu; Funke, Michael - 2005

The role of product market reforms in achieving the objective of higher employment and growth has recently received much attention amongst academics. The aim of this paper is to analyse some of the channels through which cross-market effects come about and to assess their policy relevance. The...

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Equilibrium unemployment and capital intensity under product and labor market imperfections

Kauppi, Heikki; Koskela, Erkki; Stenbacka, Rune - 2004

equilibrium unemployment. The relationship between the long-run unemployment and the intensity of product market competition is …

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Industry concentration and strategic trade policy in successive oligopoly

Nese, Gjermund; Straume, Odd Rune - 2005

We study a policy game between exporting and importing countries in vertically linked industries. In a successive international Cournot oligopoly, we analyse incentives for using tax instruments strategically to shift rents vertically, between exporting and importing countries, and horizontally,...

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Powering up developing countries through integration?

Auriol, Emmanuelle; Biancini, Sara - 2012

Power market integration is analyzed in a two countries model with nationally regulated firms and costly public funds. If generation costs between the two countries are too similar negative business-stealing outweighs efficiency gains so that following integration welfare decreases in both...

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Optimal R&D investment strategies with quantity competition under the threat of superior entry

Lukach, Ruslan; Kort, Peter M.; Plasmans, Joseph - 2005

This paper studies R&D investment decisions of a firm facing the threat of new technology entry and subject to technical uncertainty. We distinguish four scenarios: inevitable entry, entry deterrence, entry blockade, and non-credible entry threat. The entry threat stimulates the incumbent to...

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