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Standard Setting and Competition in Mexico 2018

OECD - 2018

This report first describes the anti and pro-competitive effects of standards to then analyse the Mexican standardisation process to issue both technical regulations and standards. It also offers an overview of the best regulatory practices in standards setting and a guidance to analyse the...

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Monitoring competitiveness reforms in Kyrgyzstan

OECD - 2017

In 2013, as part of the OECD Eurasia Competitiveness Programme, the OECD worked with the Government of Kyrgyzstan to … assess and improve the country’s competitiveness. The OECD, in cooperation with GIZ (the German Society for International Co …-operation), proposed the adoption of a targeted and practical approach to support competitiveness reforms in Kyrgyzstan. The review led to …

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Product differentiation and competitive selection

Kaniovski, Serguei - 2005

By studying the effect of different patterns of demand in an evolutionary selection model this paper shows how product differentiation reduces competitive selection pressure and thus increases the chances for the coexistence of firms. With the example of a duopoly it shows that: (1) a monopoly...

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Scarcity and appropriative competition

Grossman, Herschel I.; Mendoza, Juan - 2002

This paper formalizes the commonsensical hypothesis that resource scarcity causes a large allocation of time and effort to appropriative competition. Our main innovation is to model explicitly the positive intertemporal effect of consumption on the probability of survival. The critical...

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Ex-post merger evaluation in the UK retail market for books

Aguzzoni, Luca; Argentesi, Elena; Ciari, Lorenzo; Duso, … - 2013

This paper empirically evaluates the price effects of the merger of two major book retail chains in the UK: Waterstone's and Ottakar's. We employ differences-in-differences techniques and use a rich dataset containing monthly scanner data information on a sample of 200 books sold in 60 stores in...

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Equilibrium innovation ecosystems : the dark side of collaborating with complementors

Mantovani, Andrea; Ruiz-Aliseda, Francisco - 2012

The recent years have exhibited a burst in the amount of collaborative activities among firms selling complementary products. This paper aims at providing a rationale for such a large extent of collaboration ties among complementors. To this end, we analyze a game in which the two producers of a...

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Cournot retrouvé under price or supply function competition

Delbono, Flavio; Lambertini, Luca - 2015

This paper aims at participating in the long-lasting debate about the analytical foundations of the Cournot equilibrium. In a homogeneous oligopoly, under standard regularity conditions, we prove that Cournot-Nash emerges both under (i) price competition and Cournot conjectures; and (ii) supply...

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Competition among coalitions in a Cournot industry : a validation of the Porter Hypothesis

Lambertini, Luca; Pignataro, Giuseppe; Tampieri, Alessandro - 2015

We determine the emergence of the Porter Hypothesis in a large oligopoly setting where the industry-wide adoption of green technologies is endogenously determined as a result of competition among coalitions. We examine a setting where the initial technology is polluting, firms decide whether to...

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Kreuzfahrthäfen im Wettbewerb

Holst, Alexander - 2018

Die Kreuzfahrtbranche boomt: Die Häfen verzeichnen seit Jahren eine stetige Zunahme an Anläufen und Passagieren. Kreuzfahrten sind nicht mehr nur Nebengeschäft, sondern haben mittlerweile für zahlreiche Häfen eine hohe wirtschaftliche Bedeutung erlangt. Es wird massiv für mehr Anläufe...

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Product line competition and shopping costs : why firms may choose to compete head-to-head

Klemperer, Paul - 1990

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