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 …

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 …

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

straightforward empirical tests from a model of patient demand, procedure quality, and differentiated product competition. Using …

markets. Our empirical work is motivated by the literature on quality and price competition in the presence of minimum … price competition and differentiate themselves from their now higher quality rivals …

We study the distortions to industrial organization caused by entry regulation. We take advantage of heterogeneity … affected by country-level entry regulation. In industries with high natural entry barriers, entry regulation has little impact …, countries with high entry regulation have relatively few, large firms. We find no relation between natural entry barriers and …