industry is unusual because there exist two horizontally segmented retail markets with different degrees of competition: the … predicts that competition is the key driver of the rate at which technology is adopted. -- Innovation ; market structure …

industry is unusual because there exist two horizontally segmented retail markets with different degrees of competition: the … predicts that competition is the key driver of the rate at which technology is adopted …

soft drinks. This study evaluates the pass-through of the tax, the influence on the tax of competition among different … competition faced by each store and find that with greater competition in the relevant market, there is less overall pass … greatest competition, the pass-through effect is perfect shifting. We also find that markets with greater competition show a …

economies and competition law to protect those economies. No one could have predicted that within twenty years most of the world …’s trading economies would have adopted recognizable forms of competition law including the former nations of the Soviet Union … form of competition law. This has been the one of the principal, but by no means the only, topic of his work as an academic …

effects of increased import competition are reinforced for foreign owned firms. In contrast, in Bulgaria and Romania …

competition policy as well as the large gaps of empirically-validated theory in the economic literature on competition and …

Antitrust scholars have argued that exclusive contracts have anticompetitive, or at best neutral effects, if no … efficiencies are generated. In contrast, this paper shows that exclusive contracts can have procompetitive effects, provided buyers … necessarily foreclosed through exclusive contracts but induces buyers to breach. Because breaching buyers have to pay expectation …

This study constructs a model of anticompetitive exclusive-offer competition between two existing upstream firms. Under … exclusive-offer competition, the upstream firm's profit depends on the rival's exclusive offer. If the rival makes an exclusive …