information and competence of households, in combination with stiffer competition among firms, will also increase the power of …

We show that, in the case when innovations are for sale, increased product market competition, captured by reduced … the bidding competition for the innovation and by increasing the relative profitability of being the most efficient firm … in the industry. Moreover, it is shown that increased intensity of competition can increase the relative profitability of …

The competitive effect of international market integration in industries with imperfect competition is of great policy …

cost inefficiencies, due to a "least danger to competition" (LDC) condition, which favors small, and thus inefficient …

Anticompetitive mergers increase competitors' profits, since they reduce competition. Using a model of endogenous …

. Merger control may help protect competition. Holdup and intertemporal links make policy design more difficult, however. Even …

domestically-owned firms is through the impact on competition. We examine the effect of FDI on competition in the Chinese … manufacturing sector and the effect of competition on firms’ R&D. Our analysis is conducted on a large dataset including all Chinese … large and medium sized firms over the period 1998-2004. Our results show that FDI increases competition but there are no …