literature suggest a negative effect of (price) competition on investments in mobile networks. To the best of our knowledge this … auctions may alter competition in the mobile market. …

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 …

This study analyzes empirically the effects of import competition on firm productivity (TFPQ) using administrative firm … positive incentives for firms to invest in productivity improvement, whereas import competition from middle- and low …. Costly investment in productivity appears feasible reaction to such type of competition and we find no evidence for …

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 …

at the retail level. A rapid price decline and a decline in revenues followed. Increased retail competition eventually … demand function is performed by instrumenting the market price by incumbent-specific cost shifting variables as well as other … residual demand is inelastic (long run price elasticity of residual demand of -0.12). Such a level of elasticity is shown to be …