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We study the dual relationship between market structure and prices and between market structure and investment in …. Furthermore, they also lead to higher investment per mobile operator, though the impact on total investment is not conclusive. Our … stress that competition and regulatory authorities should take seriously the potential trade-off between market power effects …
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We study the dual relationship between market structure and prices and between market structure and investment in …. Furthermore, they also lead to higher investment per mobile operator, though the impact on total investment is not conclusive. Our … stress that competition and regulatory authorities should take seriously the potential trade-off between market power effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011659539
-level data of plant investments in the TFT-LCD panel industry, where technological competition has been intense and dynamic. We …
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This paper estimates demand elasticities for the Turkish mobile telecommunication market. In contrast to most other studies, firm level data is used to estimate dynamic panel data models including instrumental variable techniques. Both short- and long-run elasticities are calculated, yielding a...
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In this paper, we assess the impact of competition and regulation on prices of mobile services in France. We estimate …-adjusted prices to a set of competition and regulation variables and find that the launch of 4G networks by mobile operators was the … jointly a significant impact on quality-adjusted prices. In percentage terms, competition is responsible for about 68% of …
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This paper empirically investigates market behavior and firms' lobbying in a unified structural setup. In a sequential game, where firms lobby for regulation before they compete in the product market, we derive a testable measure of lobbying coordination. Applying the setting to the early U.S....
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Policy choices often entail trade-offs between workers and consumers. I assess how foreign competition changes the …
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This paper discusses theoretically the different incentives of managers versus firm owners to invest in innovative activities. There are opposing effects concerning R&D intensity in the manager-controlled firm. Our study on the determinants of R&D intensity presents empirical results concerning...
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airport-pairs to reject both conducts consistent with the Bertrand outcome, which is equivalent to perfect competition, and … the presence of low-cost competition in an airport-pair reduces the average fare significantly …
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This paper provides some first empirical evidence on the relationship between R&D spillovers and R&D cooperation. The results suggest disentangling different aspects of know-how flows. Firms which rate incoming spillovers more importantly and who can limit outgoing spillovers by a more effective...
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