Browsing The Economic and Social Review, Vol. 33, No. 1, Spring, 2002 by Subject "Competition"
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Endogenous sunk costs in the market for mobile telecommunications: the role of licence fees
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2002)An oligopoly model with endogenous sunk costs illustrates the trade off between ex ante extraction of oligopoly rents and market entry of firms in the mobile telecommunications industry. Competitive bidding for radio ... -
Interfirm competition, intrafirm cannibalisation and product exit in the market for computer hard disk drives
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2002)Intrafirm ?cannibalisation? of a product?s demand by the firm?s own products is found to have a more robust and significant relationship to the probability of its withdrawal than does interfirm competition from other ... -
Portfolio effects and firm size distribution: carbonated soft drinks
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2002)We use rich brand level retail data to demonstrate that the firm size distribution in Carbonated Soft Drinks is mainly an outcome of the degree to which firms own a portfolio of brands across segments of the market, and ... -
Regulating unbundled network utilities
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2002)The new conventional wisdom is that network utilities should be unbundled, with the potentially competitive segments under separate ownership from the natural monopoly network. Regulation should provide the same incentives ...