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The article examines a differentiated-products duopoly model where the firms make entry decisions to two markets and then choose prices. The effects of product differentiation and entry costs are analyzed in two games: with and without price discrimination between the markets. Allowing price...
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Consumers often have to decide whether to go to a remote store for a lower price. Only the absolute price difference between the stores should be relevant in this case, but several experiments showed that people exhibit "relative thinking": they are affected also by the relative savings...
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Article about alternative interpretations of the concept of "competition" as the adaptive behavior of market participants. The author substantiates the thesis of the identity of market adaptation and market competition rather than rivalry.
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Around the turn of the century from the 20th to the 21st, the inter-firm relations in the Japanese steel industry changed greatly. Within the country, NKK and Kawasaki Steel consolidated all their businesses and chartered JFE Holdings. Nippon Steel, Sumitomo Metals, and Kobe Steel formed...
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Mexico and Chile. These two countries enable one to contrast the different routes taken by the same type of firm, technology …, railway technology had a positive impact on human capital training in the cases studied. During the period when railways were … modern technology and it was not until well into the 20th century that a formal system of technical schools was established …
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India's diversified and sophisticated manufacturing base contrasts strongly with the near complete absence of visible innovative capabilities. This article examines the Indian "National System of Innovation" in order to address the question of the evident distinction between the ability to make...
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should be given to liberalization of investment flows, higher technology cooperation, and cooperation in areas of education …
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bringing into being the type of workforce that is required to make use of leading-edge technology. On the other hand …, industrial development in the modern economy depends critically on human development, precisely because of modern technology … workforce with the high levels of education and skills required to make modern technology effective - instead of passing through …
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technology and demand factors. The linked worker-plant data are produced by matching workers in the Employment Statistics … technology on skill demand we introduce plant level technology indicators from the R&D Survey and a Manufacturing Technology …
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The paper discuses most current issues on technology implementation dynamics observed across nations, as well as it … focuses on the problem of suppose technology convergence (or divergence) among nations. The author implements and verifies the …
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