Market Share, R&D Cooperation, and EU Competition Policy

Municipal waste collection: market competition and the EU policy

Two of the main pillars of the EU waste collection policy are the Proximity Principle and Self-Suffi ciency Principle. According to those, waste should be disposed as close as possible to where it has been produced. The effect of such provision is to increase the market power of local disposers, with possible undesirable consequences for other firms in the vertical chain. We show through a simp...

Spatial Competition and Market Share: An Application to Motion Pictures

This paper presents an empirical assessment of movie theatre attendance in two major metropolitan markets and provides strong support for the importance of spatial characteristics in determining attendance. We consider the hypothesis that attendance at a particular movie theatre reflects a tension between two effects: a negative competition effect and a positive agglomeration effect. We find ev...

1 Market Share and Exchange rate Pass - through : Competition among

Using a sample from January 1988 to December 2005 for exports of five Japanese major ports to six destination countries, we examine the effect of market share (with respect to competitors from the same country) on exchange rate pass-through (henceforth, ERPT). Our dataset is unique, allowing us to control for market shares among competing exporters with the same nationality. A close examination...

Industrial Competition, Shifts in Market Share and Productivity Growth

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The interface between EU competition policy and the CAP