This paper models competition between two firms, which provide broadband Internet access in regional markets with … intensifies competition in all regions. We show that the cost-reducing potential of investments dominates the strategic effect …: Higher access fees increase facility-based competition, decrease retail prices and increase total demand. -- Broadband access …

This paper models competition between two firms, which provide broadband In-ternet access in regional markets with … intensifies competition in all regions. We show that the cost-reducing potential of investments dominates the strategic effect …: Higher access fees increase facility-based competition, decrease retail prices and increase total demand. …

We analyze Bertrand duopoly competition in markets with network effects and consumer switching costs. Depending on the …, and cost asymmetries. Finally, in a dynamic extension of our model, we show how competition depends on agents' discount … factors. -- Network Effects ; Switching Costs ; Bertrand Competition …

We analyze market dynamics under Bertrand duopoly competition in industries with network effects and consumer switching …

This paper studies the links between competition in the lending market and spreads of bank loans in Brazil. Evidence …

We establish that the effect of intensified deposit market competition, measured by reduced switching costs, on the … probability of bank failures depends critically on whether we focus on competition with established customer relationships or … competition for the formation of such relationships. With inherited customer relationships, intensified competition (i.e., lower …

pricing, introductory offers, and price wars. Such “competition for the market” or “life-cycle competition” can adequately … replace ordinary compatible competition, and can even be fiercer than compatible competition by weakening differentiation …. More often, however, incompatible competition not only involves direct efficiency losses but also softens competition and …