. Competition from venture capitalists increases corporate venturing activity, the salaries of potential entrepreneurs, and total …

This paper analyses the impact of competition among downstream firms on an upstream firm's payoff and on its incentive … to vertically integrate when firms on both segments negotiate optimal contracts. We argue that tougher competition … firm is better off encouraging competition when the downstream firms have high bargaining power. We derive implications on …

competition in an export market induces a firm to skew its export sales towards its best performing products. We find very strong …

selection with heterogeneous buyers and sellers consistent with these findings in which tougher competition induces a better … tougher competition leads to higher productivity and higher welfare and hints at an additional source of gains from trade as … long as freer trade fosters competition. …