In this paper we study the implications of service level guarantees (SLGs) in a model of oligopoly competition where … oligopoly models of price competition, greatly simplifying the analysis of this otherwise complex competitive scenario. Notably …

incentives are positively related to the potential for technical progress. They also depend on market structure, competition …. As a result, the maximum consumer surplus as well as welfare occurs under imperfect competition and not under perfect … competition. …

The relationship between technical progress and price competition is a controversial issue in economics. This paper … highlights the fact that investment in technical progress is an authentic type of competition which benefits the consumers rather … than the industry. This type of competition exists when the potential for technical progress, which can be incorporated by …

This paper investigates the strategic impact of organizational design on product market competition. In a duopoly model …

This paper studies whether competition may induce firms abandoning deceptive pricing strategies aimed to profit from …

aspects of tariff menus that are currently ignored by theoretical models of nonlinear pricing competition in order to …

shows that competition induces firms to introduce mostly non-foggy options, thus abandoning deceptive pricing strategies … (fog lifting) aimed to profit from mistaken choices of consumers rather than softening competition through the use of foggy … according to either definition of foggy pricing. Thus competition alone, and in particular the tactics of entrants, appears to …

interests in making calling profits. In this paper we develop a Hotelling-style model of network competition between two MNOs to …