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This article estimates price-cost margins for the Portuguese markets in a context of imperfect competition in the … strongly reject the hypothesis of perfect competition in both labour and product markets. Estimated price-cost margins are very …
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developed which describes the general structure of competition for attention and characterizes equilibria. The exogenous …
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developed which describes the general structure of competition for attention and characterizes equilibria. The exogenous …
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competition. The model is built on the assumption of a product market and has not yet been empirically tested on service …&D. Finally, as competition increases, small firms tend to seek more strategic alliances with competitors while large firms tend … capacity to handle innovation projects internally and as competition increases, so does the payoff of an edge to competitors. …
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competition. The model is built on the assumption of a product market and has not yet been empirically tested on service …&D. Finally, as competition increases, small firms tend to seek more strategic alliances with competitors while large firms tend … capacity to handle innovation projects internally and as competition increases, so does the payoff of an edge to competitors …
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This paper examines the effect of the international competitiveness of home producers on their pricing. Evidence based on the 1970-75 period suggests the claim that in the Canadian manufacturing sector domestic prices are set in accordance with a mixture of two pricing hypotheses: the...
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We focus on the estimation of market entry costs that are declining over time and evaluate their impact on competition …
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Does competitive pressure foster innovation? In addressing this important question, prior studies ignored a distinction between discrete innovation aiming at entirely new technology and continuous improvement consisting of numerous incremental improvements and modifications made upon the...
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In this paper, we argue that the influence product market competition exerts on disclosure is defined by the combined … effect of the incentives and disincentives to disclose raised by the multiple competition dimensions. We distinguish between … firm and industry level competition measures, and we hypothesize that the former raises agency and proprietary costs …
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A recent empirical literature has shaken economists' confidence in the value of aggregate (industry-level) data to illuminate production relationships. But the statistical finding "you can't aggregate," however well documented, is not an economic explanation. Plant-level relationships do...
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