El presente trabajo analiza la relación entre demandantes y oferentes de insumos intermedios en la economía boliviana, con el fin de determinar qué actividades tienen un impacto importante sobre el resto de la economía y cuáles están menos integradas a la misma. Para esto se utilizan los...

This paper examines the relationship between market integration and product diversification in a Chamberlinian model of monopolistic competition. In the first version of the model, production of the firm is organised in activities producing either one or two horizontally differentiated...

We use a variant of the Hotelling (1929) model to illustrate that, when a firm faces hard payment constraint(s), financially strong rivals may adopt predatory strategies to drive the firm out of the product market and hence to obtain extra profit from enhanced market power later on. Predation is...

Schumpeter claimed the entrepreneur to be instrumental for creative destruction and industrial dynamics. Entrepreneurial entry serves to transform and revitalize industries, thereby enhancing their competiveness. This paper investigates if entry of new firms influences productivity amongst...

It is usual to argue that the US antidumping code and legal practice have become a substitute for tariffs now severely limited by GATT and, somewhat like these displaced tariffs, they are intended to limit the extent of price competition by foreign sellers. However, there is one set of...

Nous proposons dans ce document un ensemble d'hypotheses sur lesquelles un cadre theorique pour l'entreprise reseau pourrait s'appuyer. Pour atteindre cet objectif, nous analysons, d'une part, le cadre theorique de l'entreprise traditionnelle constitue essentiellement de la theorie economique...

The small business sector is an important part of the American landscape, in both absolute and relative terms. Despite its absolute growth, however, the sector accounts for a diminishing share of private sector activity. But its importance, and changes in importance, vary across industrial...

What is the role of firms and markets in mediating the division of labour? This Paper uses confidential microdata from the Census of Services to examine law firms' boundaries. We first examine how the specialization of lawyers and firms increases as lawyers' returns to specialization increase....