This paper addresses the nature of competition in an industry in which firms experience learning-by-doing. It identifies conditions under which competition leads to an emergence of monopoly and conditi ons under which competition persists. Certain distinguished industria l and trade policies are...

In this article the authors explore, in a preliminary way, some of the effects of learning-by-doing on the structure, conduct and performance of an industry. Learning is seen as a decline in a firm's unit production cost as a consequence of an increase in its cumulative production experience....