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We propose a theory to manage the uneasy relation between strategic choice, chance, and determinism (or inevitability). To do so, we locate arguments in intellectual history that have a clear bearing on this relation. We introduce and defend four conjectures that outline the relationship between...
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Experience suggests that strategy entails some interplay of choice, chance, and determinism as causal elements. Specifically, strategy is predicated on causality, or the principle that strategic choices have causes as well as consequences. Yet our discipline lacks a fundamental theory of...
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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 …
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We study the impact of competition and environmental policy (feed-in tariff vs. the EU ETS) on investment, CO2 … functions, we find that competition can increase CO2 emissions, as is highlighted by Mansur (2007). In duopoly, the EU ETS seems …
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An F-cone is a pointed and generating convex cone of a real vector space that is the union of a countable family of finite dimensional polyedral convex cones such that each of which is an extremel subset of the subsequent one. In this paper, we study securities markets with countably many...
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's complexity stems from a careful balance between increasing returns and perfect competition, short-run and long-run considerations …
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We consider exchange economies with a measure space of agents and for which the commodity space is a separable and reflexive Banach lattice. Under assumptions imposing uniform bounds on marginal rates of substitution, positive results on core-Walras equivalence were established in...
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Les 3 essais sont les suivants : 1. "Les leçons du boom technologique américain : place et rôle des technologies de l'information (TI) dans l'économie américaine" ; 2. "La concurrence" ; 3. "Les relations interentreprises"
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Conversion to the single European currency, the euro, requires good management of the transition on the part of companies, both internally and externally, taking into account the importance of communication which is necessary to win consumer confidence. Through the unification of the European...
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