as suggested in consumer research. On this basis, we investigate monopoly and competition between firms, described via an …

The effects of (private, small-scale) piracy on the pricing behavior of producers of information goods are studied … that competition drives prices up and reduces total surplus. …

I present a game-theoretic model where economic competition and attention competition are interdependent. On the one … price competition among all perceived firms. On the other hand attracting attention involves costs which must be covered by … the earnings from competition. It is the task of this paper to clarify the consequences of such an interdependence between …

This paper examines the effect of competition on the irreversible investment decisions under uncertainty as a …

This paper analyzes how competition works in mobile telecommuncations markets and, bases on this analysis, we discuss … understanding competition in mobile telephony, is the fact that building a mobile telephone network requires highly specific … largely fixed and not avoidable, firms need to follow a pricing policy that involves prices above incremental costs. Hence, a …

This paper studies the impact of hospital competition on waiting times. We use a Salop-type model, with hospitals that … from the closest hospital (monopoly segment). Compared with a benchmark case of monopoly, we find that hospital competition … hospital competition, the effect of increased competition depends on the parameter of measurement: Lower travelling costs …

that supranational competition can have very different consequences on the rent seeking behaviour of firms, depending on …