to the theory of monopolistic competition. During the 1920s a lively discussion developed about the link between the cost … structure of the individual firm and the degree of competition in the wake of the demise of the Marshallian concept of the … (“external competition”) and the inadequacy of the Cournot solution for spatially differentiated firms that compete with …

theirs. Da Empoli’s work is on the process of competition. In this he has affinity to work of Knight and Clark written in the …

to the treatment of competition as an adjective. For da Empoli, competition was a rivalrous process, a verb. It is … competition as a process would now be at a more advanced state.  …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the empirical effect of competition on cost and profit efficiency in …) to estimate cost and profit efficiency scores. In the second stage, the authors measure insurance market competition … which controls for heteroskedasticity to examine the effect of competition on the estimated efficiency scores. Firm size …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate market competition for three product types of salmon (smoke … retail market. Design/methodology/approach – Competition and the corresponding pricing conduct among supermarkets are tested … implications – Concerns over the supermarkets’ exercise of market power over consumers have prompted the competition authorities to …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to extend a theoretical framework for analyzing competition and innovation in the … social welfare. An inverted-U relationship between competition and social welfare also holds. When firms behave cooperatively …

Competition and entrepreneurship are driving forces in the development of economic systems. They create jobs, new …