incumbent manufacturer transfer profits to retailers. If entry is accommodated, upstream competition leads to fierce down …- stream competition and the breakdown of RPM. Hence, via RPM, retailers internalize the effect of accommodating entry on the … effect of a retailer cartel. We also consider the effect of imperfect competition. Empirical and policy implications are …

This paper develops a dynamic model of retail competition and uses it to study the impact of the expansion of a new …

under competition with non-deceptive counterfeiting and deceptive counterfeiting, respectively, as well as under monopoly …

expectations of future profits which, in turn, depend on the nature of competition within the market. In this paper we estimate a … by potential entrants, fixed costs faced by incumbent producers, and the toughness of short-run price competition are all …

in consolidation has led to concern about competition in local markets for hospital services. We examine the effect of … market structure on competition in local hospital markets -- specifically, does the hardness of competition increase with the …

This paper provides experimental evidence on the effect of increased competition on prices and quality in the retail … areas where the number of entrants was larger. Competition seems to have driven part of the clientele away from incumbent …

In a dynamic environment where underlying competition is "for the market," this paper examines what happens when …