This chapter reviews the literature which has developed around the 'bounds approach'to
market structure over the past fifteen years. The focus of this literature lies in explaining …

I present empirical evidence that endogenous fixed costs play a central role in determining
the equilibrium structure of the supermarket industry. Using the framework developed in …

This paper studies empirically the effects of European antidumping cases on trade diversion
from importers “named” in an antidumping investigation, to countries “not named” in the …

The paper examines the pattern of regional convergence and the determinants of regional
growth in Europe, providing a discussion of the issues that are of relevance to the theoretical …

Recent developments in the literature on market structure have allowed the generation of a
few key testable predictions from the theory of strategic behaviour. The seminal model …

In the last decade of the sixteenth century, the Dutch republic underwent a dramatic
economic transformation that laid the foundation of the country's Golden Age. At the heart of …

I propose an equilibrium concept for a class of games in which players make irreversible
costly decisions; these games have been widely used in the recent Industrial Organization …

Over the last two decades the share of national income which accrues to labour has
followed a marked downward trend across a host of industrialised countries. This paper …

I started to read idly, and soon found myself hooked. An intelligent insider's thoughts on
research strategies will do that to you. The world of economics is a complicated and messy …

This is a key year for the evolution of international markets. The global economy is
experiencing the most severe downturn since the thirties, it is temporarily leaving a path of …