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enforcing tighter market competition which strengthens all active firms' incentive to grow. We also provide suggestive evidence …
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This article deals with the issue of entry into an industry where firms share a collective reputation. First, we show that free entry is not socially optimal; there is a need for regulation through the imposition of a minimum quality standard. Second, we argue that a minimum quality standard can...
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Hundreds of millions of microenterprises in emerging economies face increased competition from the entry and expansion …, neighborhood shops, confront competition from convenience chains (e.g., 7- Eleven) in Mexico. To address the endogeneity in time …
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We argue that, in a simple setting, the relation between the intensity of competition and cost-reducing investment is U … is minimal for intermediate levels of competition, which is inversely parameterized by the extent of product … ; intensity of competition ; experiment …
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competition online - an area that up to then seemed to have worked being left to the market. Though the extension of public …-media effects. -- media economics ; two-sided markets ; competition ; public service broadcasting ; public service media …
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This paper analyses the relation between competition and concentration in the banking sector. The empirical answer is … given by testing a monopolistic competition model of bank branching behaviour on individual bank data at county level … among incumbent banks on competition and discuss when, depending on the pre-merger structure of the market and geographic …
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