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stores entering the Swedish retail food market during the period 1994-2002. It was found that uncertainty affected the entry …-decision. Entry was less frequent in highly concentrated local retail food-markets characterized by a high degree of uncertainty …, whereas higher profit opportunities seem to have increased the probability of entry. <p> …
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. High access charges may make the firms collude on high prices. Moreover, when allowing for entry, we show that incumbents …
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for entering the network. We distinguish between classical (de novo) entry and reciprocal entry (incumbent entering the …The purpose of this article is to investigate the prospects for entry into an existing network in the telecommunication … incumbent has an installed base of loyal consumers, some consumers are price sensitive, and the entrant is charged an access fee …
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entry and exit costs as well as on investment and labor adjustment costs in IT services. The empirical application builds on … labor adjustment costs for software but lower for operational services after the dot-com bust. The entry costs for software …
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We consider games where agents are embedded in a network of bilateral relationships and have multivariate strategy sets. Some components of their strategies correspond to individual activities, while the other strategic components are related to joint activities and interaction with the...
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The related phenomena of learning curve and network effects are quite common in oligopolistic markets. In this context the present paper discusses the incentives of a technological leader to share its exclusive technology with potential competitors. An alliance may be preferable because partner...
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The liberalisation of air transport that took place in the European Union at the beginning of the nineties has involved positive effects on the welfare traveller. However, there is an agreement in the academic literature that such effects depend on the existence of an effective competition at...
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Electronic coordination links markets at different locations that have initially been (partially) separated by transport costs. Rising competitive pressure should in turn affect incentives to differentiate products. In this paper investment decisions concerning transport cost reduction and...
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This paper generalizes the two-period model of Watt (2000) who demonstrates the possibility of optimal accommodation of a pirate when the royalty rate applying to a creation is uniform and second-period Cournot competition applies. Admitting nonlinear contracts with period-specific royalty rates...
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This paper investigates the relationship between various market imperfections and the skill premium. The model in this paper assumes perfectly competitive labor markets but distorted product and financial markets. The model predicts that the skill premium is positively correlated with market...
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