The paper studies the changes in the market and company structure of the Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology industry. The … companies, the concentration process, and the tendency of Pharmaceutical suppliers to integrate downwards. The basis of the …-innovative drugs, detailing, direct patient advertising, price competition and setup costs. The chapter on financing examines the …

operating in the short run under systematically varied concentration and capacity conditions. The pricing of electricity is …

In this paper we re-examine empirically the Structure-Conduct-Performance relationship between concentration and … concentration does increase profitability, but only in geographically dispersed industries, suggesting that regional markets are an …

Disziplinierung von Marktmacht. Neben den allgemeinen Implementierungsm?ngeln bei der Anwendung dieser Modelle in der Praxis bergen …

The level and nature of competition in supermarket retailing in Australia has beenhotly debated as a policy issue in …

Dramatic increases in concentration in the seed business, coupled with aggressive efforts to vertically integrate the … producers. Disparate positions of market power by highly concentrated input suppliers on the one hand (particularly seed … suppliers because of control over germ plasm and a monopoly position over seed varieties through plant patents or plant variety …

This paper investigates the pricing and vertical organization of differentiated products under imperfect competition …-Hirschman index (termed VHHI) capturing how market concentration and vertical structures interact to influence prices of … evidence that vertical organization has significant effects on seed prices. These effects are found to vary depending on the …