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A Model of Vertical Oligopolistic Competition
Reisinger, Markus; Schnitzer, Monika - 2008
This paper develops a model of successive oligopolies with endogenous market entry, allowing for varying degrees of … product differentiation and entry costs in both markets. Our analysis shows that the downstream conditions dominate the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014218980
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Deregulation in retailing : the Dutch experience
Carree, Martin Anthony; Nijkamp, Joyce - 1999
Institutional barriers to entry were removed to a considerable extent in 1996 in the Dutch retail sector. Three years … show that the increase in the speed of adjustment is the consequence of lowering barriers to entry while the barriers to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011302129
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Competition and entry in banking : implications for stability and capital regulation
Boot, Arnoud W. A.; Marinč, Matej - 2006
ask two questions: i) how does capital regulation affect (endogenous) entry; and ii) how do (exogenous) changes in the … requirements can lead to more entry into banking, essentially by reducing the competitive strength of lower quality banks. We also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011348715
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The Impact of Firm Entry Regulation on Long-Living Entrants
Prantl, Susanne - 2010
What is the impact of firm entry regulation on sustained entry into self-employment? How does firm entry regulation … in firm entry regulation. After German reunification, East and West Germany faced different economic conditions, but fell … firm in one of the regulated occupations. The empirical results suggest that the entry regulation suppresses long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014193277
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Can Price Discrimination Be Bad for Firms and Good for All Consumers? A Theoretical Analysis of Cross-Market Price Constraints with Entry and Product Differentiation
Azar, Ofer H. - 2003
The article examines a differentiated-products duopoly model where the firms make entry decisions to two markets and … then choose prices. The effects of product differentiation and entry costs are analyzed in two games: with and without … price discrimination between the markets. Allowing price discrimination encourages more entry and tends to reduce prices and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014074952
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Determinants of mobile broadband use in developing economies : evidence from Nigeria
Hasbi, Maude; Dubusy, Antoine - 2019 - Preliminary version, incomplete
Using micro-level data coming from household surveys over 5 years, from 2013 to 2017, we analyse what are the determinants of mobile broadband adoption in developing economies. We provide empirical evidence on the presence of a learning effect stemming from mobile money use, which by providing a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012150720
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Determinants of mobile broadband use in developing economies : evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Hasbi, Maude; Dubus, Antoine - 2019
Broadband is seen as a vector of economic growth and social development. In the developing world, mobile technologies are widely adopted and mobile broadband is progressively rolled-out with high expectations on its impact on the countries' development. We highlight what the determinants of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012153759
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On The Welfare Effects of Regulating the Number of Discriminatory Prices
Braouezec, Yann - 2015
We consider a profit-maximizing monopolist that faces N2 different markets while the number k of discriminatory prices is chosen by the regulator. Unlike the classical approach in which only the polar cases are considered, we explicitly analyze the case in which k is an integer between 1 and N....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013038310
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Multinational firms, exclusivity, and the degree of backward linkages
Lin, Ping; Saggi, Kamal - 2005
This paper develops a two-tier oligopoly model in which the entry of a multinational firm results in technology …. The multinational's entry under an exclusive contract has a de-linking effect that can reduce the degree of competition … supply-side effects of the multinational's entry on local industry, this paper complements existing studies of backward …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295677
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Multinational Firms, Exclusivity, and the Degree of Backward Linkages
Lin, Ping; Saggi, Kamal - 2004
This paper develops a two-tier oligopoly model in which the entry of a multinational firm results in technology …. The multinational's entry under an exclusive contract has a de-linking effect that can reduce the degree of competition … supply-side effects of the multinational's entry on local industry, this paper complements existing studies of backward …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260534