a lot in explaining French MNCs? preferences. Among the other variables of interest, partnership and market potential …

(captured by market capitalization and privatization activity) constrains the location of M&A. However, is it not the only … determinant of location: market size, labor costs, market access and financial openness play a positive and significant role on …

We analyze determinants of regional industry mix and focus especially on the influence of labor market characteristics …. By combining a labor market pooling argument with an argument involving the cost of switching a worker from one firm to … another, we show that in the presence of product market shocks there exists an interesting trade-off for the concentration of …

as a classroom experiment. and show that competition is likely to discover the market equilibrium as well as the wealth …

for consumers. In a formal model, we argue that retailer market power reduces upstream firms incentives to introduce new … supports the proposition of a detrimental effect of retailer market power on product innovations. This effect is mitigated if … manufacturing firms also have some market power (countervailing power). Innovations are positively related to firm?s market share in …

?s magazine market, a particularly large segment of the German magazine where fierce competition is reigning. Models for … significantly affect magazines? market shares. Magazines that launched a website face a significantly lower price elasticity of …