While in practice negotiation is always a mix of cooperation and competition, these two elements correspond to …

governance as well as economic and political competition, whereas the role of collaboration mechanisms is growing. This process …

informational problems. We show that, as a consequence of this trade-off, more intense competition in unregulated segments of the … can lead to a softer merger policy when competition is weaker. …

We study the effects of competition in a context in which people's actions can not be contractually fixed. We find that … in such an environment the very presence of competition does neither increase efficiency nor does it yield any payoff … gains for the short side of the market. We also find that competition has a strong negative impact on social well-being, the …

The debate on competition and innovation has produced a wide range of theoretical and empirical findings. Recently …, corporate governance quality has emerged as an additional factor that may complement or substitute for competition’s effect on … innovation. We aim to contribute to the debate by investigating whether product-market competition and corporate governance …

approach ignores both the competition between oil companies, and the large geographical differences. The paper concludes by …

. Empirical evidence suggests that emerging markets, as well as European countries such as Italy, Sweden or Germany have ….Corporate financing patterns in emerging markets in the 1990s were broadly similar to those observed in the 1980s. Unlike their … held beliefs, product market competition in emerging countries is no less intense than in advanced economies. …