The current study takes a contingency theory approach to the relationship between market leadership and a variety of marketing strategy concepts making up a firm’s strategic profile, including a firm’s Miles and Snow strategy type, market growth, service growth, service focus, market...

The common denominator of this monograph is the application of dynamic oligopoly theory in analyzing the underlying strategic effects in particular microeconomics issues (positive analysis) and ensuing policy implications of these issues (normative analysis). Part I deals with strategic trade...

There are many factors that determine the structure of competition in the environment of growing globalization. Of these, the factors which predominates the nature of competition include not only rivals, but also the economics of particular industries, new entrants, the bargaining power of...

The introduction of a new product generation forces incumbents in network industries to rebuild their installed base to maintain an advantage over potential entrants. We study if backward compatibility moderates this process of rebuilding an installed base. Using a structural model of the U.S....

A free entry model with linear costs is considered where firms first choose their entry time and then compete in the market according to the resulting timing decisions. Multiple equilibria arise allowing for infinitely many industry outputconfigurations encompassing one limit-output dominant...

This paper tests market co-integration, market leadership and price margins in the context of the recent development of European markets for imported off-season fresh fruit from countries in the southern hemisphere. The Engle-Granger and Johansen co-integration tests show that the main European...

A Vidékfejlesztési Minisztérium egy új és egyedülálló védjegyet vezetett be a hazai piacra, amely 2012-től vált országosan elterjedtté. Ez a speciális védjegy az egyes nemzeti parkok területén már régóta létező, hagyományos módon előállított, kiváló minőségű...

Replaced with revised version of paper 06/19/07.

We provide evidence that increasing consumer awareness may have been underlying the rise of debit card use. We find that consumers typically use multiple payment media and that this behavior is closely related to the use of debit cards besides cash. Moreover, it turns out that the use of...