This paper investigates the impact of technical progress on the relationship between competition an investment. Using a … model of oligopoly competition with di¤erentiated products where firms invest to reduce their marginal cost of production, I … competition that maximizes investment of the industry. This feature holds also for consumer surplus and Welfare. In the model …

Value Added and Net Income of farms, as well as indicators regarding factor productivity, highlighting the relationship … between productivity, farm typology and farm size. EUROSTAT and European Commission statistics based on FADN survey from the … correlated with labour productivity. Improving the efficiency of production factors should contribute to reducing the disparities …

transport cost than leads to both overharvesting and under-harvesting in some regions. Due to these externalities market … of this paper is to study the role of market structure for the sustainable harvesting of natural resources. This work is … follows from market structure and is driven not only by population density but also by land ownership, land rent, transport …

We investigate the trade-off between financial stability and competition policy by focusing on the merger of ABN AMRO … and Fortis Bank NL in the Dutch retail banking market. The financial crisis delayed the completion of the merger giving … products using a random-coefficients logit model. On the supply side we assume Bertrand Nash competition in a multiproduct …

auctions may alter competition in the mobile market. … literature suggest a negative effect of (price) competition on investments in mobile networks. To the best of our knowledge this … is the first academic paper to provide a detailed analysis of how different characteristics of the market structure …

deep labour market crisis (e.g. Ruhr Area). Within a country, however, there are only minor differences in the institutions …. Increased productivity allows producing a given quantity wit less labour. This is the displacement effect of technical progress …

productivity growth in Europe, using the most recent Cambridge Econometrics regional database, EU KLEMS growth and productivity … accounts and EuroStat R&D data. We apply a reduced-form empirical specification for semi-endogenous productivity growth that … allows for differences in steady state income levels and long-run growth rates. Productivity growth in a region depends on …