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Product Differentiation, Industry Concentration and Market Share Turbulence
Matraves, Catherine; Rondi, Laura - Istituto di Ricerca sulla Crescita Economica … - 2005
Building on the current theory of industrial concentration, we analyze the relation between market size and product …
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Product Differentiation, Industry Concentration and Market Share Turbulence
Matraves, Catherine; Rondi, Laura - In: International Journal of the Economics of Business 14 (2007) 1, pp. 37-57
Building on the current theory of industrial concentration, we analyze the relation between market size and product …
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Intermediation by heterogeneous oligopolists
Morasch, Karl - Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und … - 2010
In his book on 'Market Microstructure' Spulber presented some strange results with respect to the impact of the substitutability parameter in an intermediation model with differentiated products and inputs. Intuitively, effects in the product and the input market should be similar: if firms...
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Globalization Drives Strategic Product Switching
Badia, Marialuz Moreno; Slootmaekers, Veerle; Beveren, … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008
Using firm-level data for Estonia for the years 1997-2005, we analyze the impact of international competition on firm …
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Product Differentiation and Market Demand for TNC in an emerging economy: The Case of Indian Durable Consumer Goods Industries
Patibandla, Murali - Institut for International Økonomi og … - 2001
growth in incomes and type of competition expected from local firms. This paper develops a simple theory in the context of … the Indian economy that has opened up recently to competition. Being protected from potential competition in the pre …-reform era, local incumbents do not have the usual incumbency advantages. Saddled with sunk costs in sub-international product …
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Do Consumers' Preferences Really Matter? - A Note on Spatial Competition with Restricted Strategies
Buechel, Berno; Klein, Jan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
In the framework Hotelling-Downs competition two players can freely choose a position along a one-dimensional market …
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Common Labels and Market Mechanisms
Boizot-Szantai, Christine; Lecocq, Sébastien; Marette, … - Midwest Agribusiness Trade Research and Information … - 2005
In this article, the impact of common labels is investigated with both theoretical and empirical approaches. Recent statistics regarding the egg market in France suggest that retailer brands largely adopt common labels. A simple theoretical framework enables us to determine the conditions under...
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Competitive Customization
Mendelson, Haim; Parlaktürk, Ali K. - In: Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 10 (2008) 3, pp. 377-390
's competitive position. It may not be desirable even at zero cost due to its negative effect on price competition. A firm with an …
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Informative Advertising: Competition or Cooperation?
Simbanegavi, Witness - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2005
I compare the outcome when firms semicollude on advertising to the outcome in the Grossman and Shapiro (1984) model of informative advertising. I show that advertising is lower but prices and profits are higher under semicollusion on advertising. I also show that semicollusion on advertising is...
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Competition and regulation with product differentiation
Fiocco, Raffaele - In: Journal of Regulatory Economics 42 (2012) 3, pp. 287-307
a diversified monopolist, which exaggerates its costs in the regulated segment to charge a higher regulated price …, stimulates the demand for the competitive affiliate. This strengthens the firm’s incentive to inflate costs, since doing so …
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