Is there a U-shaped relation between competition and investment?

International Journal of Industrial Organization

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 65-73

  Sacco, Dario ^a   Schmutzler, Armin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Experiment; Intensity of competition; Investment; Reciprocity

Indexed keywords

COURNOT DUOPOLY; INTENSITY OF COMPETITION; INTERMEDIATE LEVEL; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; PARAMETERIZED; POSITIVE EFFECTS; PRODUCT DIFFERENTIATION; RECIPROCITY; TWO STAGE; U-SHAPED;

EXPERIMENTS; INVESTMENTS;

COMPETITION;

EID: 78049444852     PISSN: 01677187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijindorg.2009.09.003     Document Type: Article

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