The Economic and Social Review, Vol. 33, No. 1, Spring, 2002
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Interfirm competition, intrafirm cannibalisation and product exit in the market for computer hard disk drives
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 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 ... -
The impact of structural and contractual arrangements on a vertically separated railway
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2002)The unbundling of railways in Britain has been heavily criticised as undermining the passenger rail system. Economic theory suggests that structural separation and short-lived contracts hinder incentives to invest in ... -
Time dependent efficiency of free trade agreements: the case of Slovenia and the CEFTA agreement
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2002)In international trade literature there is a common feature that the abolishment of barriers to trade leads to direct expansion of trade flows. Many empirical studies that simulate welfare effects of trade liberalisation ... -
Endogenous sunk costs in the market for mobile telecommunications: the role of licence fees
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 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 ... -
Foreign ownership and wages in British establishments
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2002)This paper uses the 1990-1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey (WERS) panel data set to show that foreign establishments in Britain pay 13 per cent higher wages than domestic establishments. However, the differential ...