entry. But in oligopolistic markets, the mechanisms whereby potential competition can discipline the behaviour of incumbent … develops a model in which potential competition has no direct effect upon the pricing behaviour of incumbents, but affects the … entry barrier, as well as helping firms to segment the market in a way that blunts the force of price competition. These …

concentrated on one or a small number of firms in the sector. Using a theoretical framework in which two firms may choose either to … operate in the same "higher-growth" sector or in different, "lower-growth" sector. We use a panel of medium and large Chinese … enterprises for the period 1998 through 2007 to test for complementarity between competition and industrial policy. A main …

. Our model allows firms to shroud, unshroud, or partially unshroud add-on prices. Results show that consumer education may …

critical size, and competition to reach a critical level of intensity. By allowing an economy to produce a greater variety of …

In this paper we examine the causal impact of competition on management quality. We analyze the hospital sector where … geographic proximity is a key determinant of competition, and English public hospitals where political competition can be used to … survival rates from emergency heart attack admissions (AMI). More importantly, we find that higher competition (as indicated by …

-sharing, screening opportunities, and competition are important driving forces behind these new forms of work organization. We document … implement a control strategy, which consists of low effort discretion and little or no rent-sharing, or they implement a trust … competition substantially fosters the trust strategy, reduces market segmentation, and leads to large welfare gains for both …

industry or not. Our model identifies key policy parameters from data generated under different competition policy regimes and …How many cartels are there? The answer is important in assessing the efficiency of competition policy. We present a … may be used with time-series or panel data. We take the model to data from a period of legal cartels - Finnish …

Using a general two-stage framework, this paper gives sufficient conditions for increasing competition to have negative … or positive effects on R&D-investment, respectively. Both possibilities arise in plausible situations, even if one uses … relatively narrow definitions of increasing competition. The paper also shows that competition is more likely to increase the …