The effects of (private, small-scale) piracy on the pricing behavior of producers of information goods are studied … that competition drives prices up and reduces total surplus. …

rules for covering fixed costs affect channel profits. Under running royalties (regardless of whether based on predicted or … actual output), the downstream firms’ perceived marginal costs are above the true marginal costs since fixed costs are … incorporated. We find that tougher competition between the JV partners may actually increase channel profit under such a scheme. We …

This paper sheds light on an empirical controversy about the effect of competition on price discrimination. We … shows that whether competition has a positive or negative effect on price dispersion depends on the level of demand …

. If generation costs between the two countries are too similar negative business-stealing outweighs efficiency gains so …

This paper investigates competition between health insurance companies under different financing regulations. We … consider two alternatives advanced in recent German health care reform discussions: competition by contribution rates (health … contributions) and by fees (health premia). We find that contribution rate competition yields lower company profits and higher …

of winning and losing in a competition on the willingness to seek further challenges. Participants in a lab experiment … compete in two-person tournaments and are then informed of their score and the outcome of the competition. Conditional on the …