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Transforming Cities across Europe: An interim report on problems and progress

Anne Power, Jorg Ploger and Astrid Winkler

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March 2008

Economics of Industry Paper
Optimal Corporation Tax: An I.O. Approach

Luca Colombo, Paola Labrecciosa and Patrick Paul Walsh

Theory predicts that optimal effective corporation tax rates will be negatively related to industry specific sunk costs, and hence industry concentration. Governments should tax industries with monopolistic power softly....Read more...

February 2006

Economics of Industry Paper
DIFFERENTIAL MERGER EFFECTS: The Case of the Personal Computer Industry

Christos Genakos

This paper examines how information on the purchasing patterns of different customer segments can be used to more accurately evaluate the economic impact of mergers. Using a detailed dataset for the leading manufacturers...Read more...

December 2004

Economics of Industry Paper
Market Share Dynamics and the ‘Persistence of Leadership’ Debate

John Sutton

This paper introduces a novel analysis of the classic “persistence of leadership” question, and applies it to a newly constructed dataset for Japanese manufacturing. The analysis rests on an appeal to an empirical “scali...Read more...

January 2004

Economics of Industry Paper
Submarkets, Shakeouts and Industry Life-Cycle

Jian Tong

Some recent empirical findings suggest that there are intrinsic links between the statistical regularities regarding cohort survival patterns, the persistence of firm turnover, and shakeout during an industry life-cycle....Read more...

November 2000

International Studies Paper
The Iwakura Mission in Britain, 1872

John Breen, Oliver Checkland, Andrew Cobbing and Akiko Ohta

In London, at the Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (LSE), a symposium was held on 6 December 1997 - the anniversary of the day when the members of Iwakura's delegation were r...Read more...

March 1998

Economics of Industry Paper
Underinvestment and Market Structure

Volker Nocke

This paper analyses a dynamic game of investment in R&D or advertising, where current investments change future market conditions. It investigates whether underinvestment can be supported in equilibrium by the threat of ...Read more...

February 1998

Economics of Industry Paper
Gibrat's Legacy

John Sutton

This paper traces the time series (?Growth of Firms?) tradition in the study of market structure and looks at how recent studies on entry and the size distribution of firms have modified thinking in this area....Read more...

October 1996

Economics of Industry Paper
Endogenous Industry Structure in Vertical Duopoly

Maija Halonen

This paper examines integration decisions of successive duopolists. It is shown that qualitatively the same pattern of integration emerges whether there is Cournot or Bertrand competition in the input market. The degree ...Read more...

July 1994

Japanese Studies Programme Paper
The Learning Process and the Market: The Japanese Capital Goods Sector in the Early Twentieth Century

Tetsuro Nakaoka

Professor Tetsuro Nakaoka, formerly of Osaka University, and now of the Faculty of Management, Osaka University of Economics, gave a seminar on Japanese industrial development at the Suntory-Toyota Centre during 1992. Al...Read more...

January 1994

Economics of Industry Paper
Product Innovation and Persistence of Leadership: Theory with Evidence from the Semiconductor Industry

Harald Gruber

This paper sets out to model the evolution of market shares in the semiconductor industry. The time profile of market shares for different firms in this industry has shown a striking regularity over successive generation...Read more...

June 1990