the law of prohibition of unfair competition prohibits any deed or action which is against the normal competition in the market. before emergence of special laws for protection of intellectual property rights, including trademarks, such right could be protected either by tort law claims or law of unfair competition. however, the law of prohibition of unfair competition covers a wider area than ...

The accession of the eight CEE member states to the EU will integrate about 450 million consumers with rather similar consumption patterns for animal products. Both the old and the new EU members produce surpluses, but in ruminant meat production the EU will become a net importer. As the EU will be forced to reduce import barriers from the World market, price levels will decline, but probably b...

Yohanes Kristianto PhD student, University of Vaasa [email protected]/ This paper focuses on duopolistic competition under price and production postponement for two differentiable products that share component commonality. Both price and production postponement are benchmarked in order to investigate the component commonality effect on profit and also their appropriateness in different competitio...

This paper studies the effect of competition on ethnic discrimination by carrying out a field experiment in context rice market Bangladesh. We recruit professional buyers (middlemen) to act as judges providing quality rating and price quote for samples that we randomly associate with farmers bearing majority or minority names. First, find there is no difference buyers’ evaluation quality. Secon...

This work is devoted to the question of the optimal allocation of electricity production resources within several production technologies. We consider the equilibrium of the real– time electricity market which is effected by the competition of different power generators. For this equilibrium, the best bid strategies of electricity producers are obtained which yields for each technology the opti...

Restructuring in the power industry is followed by splitting different parts and creating a competition between purchasing and selling sections. As a consequence, through an active participation in the energy market, the service provider companies and large consumers create a context for overcoming the problems resulted from lack of demand side participation in the market. The most prominent ch...

We consider a two-stage model in which two firms first invest in R&D to reduce their marginal production costs, and then either compete or collude in the output market. When they collude, they bargain over a cartel agreement to divide the collusive profit. If bargaining breaks down, they revert to duopolistic competition. For both a location model and a linear demand model, we show that firms i...