and decreases wholesale prices when downstream competition is not too strong. Examining whether the merger’s potential …

I present the following proposal: information revealed during non-cartel investigations by competition law enforcement …

that competition authorities should welcome the risk for a given expectation of efficiency gains. Implications for …

We show how temporary ownership by private equity firms affects industry structure, competition and welfare. Temporary …

The paper aims at assessing discrete complementarities in innovation policies in the context of the Brazilian industry … on supermodularity and submodularity tests for obstacles to innovation (in the present application: lack of finance … analysis highlights the two phases of the innovation process in terms of the propensity and intensity of innovation. The …

is found that patents ought to be weaker, the more intense competition, the higher R&D productivity, and the more … intricate reverse engineering are. Unlike similar step-by-step innovation models of economic growth, the model assumes Cournot … competition and introduces an empirically substantiated measure of sector differences in the ability to catch up with the …

&D investment, and derive predictions on the effects of trust and competition on suppliers’ investment and buyers’ procurement … - but also with more competitive procurement: trust and rents from reduced supplier competition in the procurement process …