This paper empirically assesses the impact of the intensity of competition on investment in new technologies within the …-U relationship between competition intensity and investment. The intermediate level of competition intensity that maximizes … investment stands at 62 percent, whereby competition intensity is measured by 1-Lerner index at the firm level. This means that …

The impact of market structure on investment is an important topic in the mobile industry. However, previous literature … mobile operators to investigate its impact on investment, taking into account market share asymmetry and the adjustment cost … of investment. The empirical analysis is backed by a theoretical model that introduces vertical differentiation in a …

surplus in symmetric mobile markets. When mobile services are viewed as homogeneous products under Cournot competition, we … differentiated products under Salop competition, we find an inverted-U relationship between consumer surplus and the number of mobile …

In this paper, we design a theoretical model to analyze the impact of the number of firms on investment in the wireless … communications industry. Our model extends the Salop's framework by introducing investment in quality that either reduces the … their incentives to invest in quality. The impact on the aggregate industry investment can be non-monotone. These …

anticompetitive effects. Most importantly, antitrust analysis should focus on competition for seeking and providing attention rather … than the particular products and services used for securing and delivering this attention. The existence of competition …

business model, and competition, result in the platform allowing one type of customers to participate in the platform for free … by the participants on the platform as well as have heightened focus on non-price competition when the participation for … concern a free platform side where there is no monetary measure of value. Finally, dynamic competition makes the analysis of …

This paper presents an analysis of competition in wireless telecommunications that models the interdependence between … two-stage game of quality competition with required minimum infrastructure levels, and establish two distinct kinds of …

This article examines the effect of access obligation on mobile network investment. Access obligation is a form of … claimed that such regulation might lower investment incentives of MNOs, this assertion has not yet been assessed by … mobile network investment in Germany, where access obligation had been implemented for the 3G technology (but not for 4G and …

This paper investigates the impact of technical progress on the relationship between competition an investment. Using a … competition that maximizes investment of the industry. This feature holds also for consumer surplus and Welfare. In the model … model of oligopoly competition with di¤erentiated products where firms invest to reduce their marginal cost of production, I …