provision. Many such services are provided by monopoly not-for-profit providers and there is concern that for-profit providers … may increase profit at the expense of quality. This paper explores whether entry by for-profit providers is good for … developing a novel approach to competition between different organizational forms, it frames the relevant trade-offs precisely …

profit. Setting up a model that allows for profitable and loss-making affiliates of multinationals, we show that profit … equilibrium, affiliates might over-invest and the bunching-related investment effects generate a tendency for too high profit …

multimarket contact generates mutual forbearance in frequency competition, finding no evidence for such an effect …

Why is it that exporter productivity premia (EPP) differ so widely in size? We take this question to the theory and to … EPPs across sectors, and hence across countries, can be explained by the variation in productivity dispersion, trade costs …

price. The larger firm makes a higher profit per reader and in aggregate compared to its smaller rival …

maintenance (RPM) in which firms employ RPM to dampen downstream price competition. In this model, we find that restrictions on …