Can patent protection and product market competition complement each other in enhancing incentives to innovate? In this … product market competition interact with the strength of patent rights. We provide empirical evidence of innovation responding …, that patent protection can complement competition in inducing innovation …

role of an active market for corporate control and of competition in banking integration. European listed banks … profitability appears to converge to a common level. There is weak evidence that competition eliminates high profits for these banks …

We examine the impact of Chinese import competition on patenting, IT, R&D and TFP using a panel of up to half a million …-specific quotas following China's entry into the World Trade Organization. Chinese import competition had two effects: first, it led … account for around 15% of European technology upgrading between 2000-2007. Rising Chinese import competition also led to falls …

show that sectors characterized by a higher degree of competition (more substitutable products and a lower concentration of …

-economic equilibrium in two ways. On the one hand, it leads to more tax competition between the countries: this "economic effect" tends to …: this "political effect" offsets the increased tax competition, although not completely so. The second part of the paper …

This paper develops and simulates a dynamic model of strategic telecom competition. The goal is to understand how … regulatory policy, particularly relative to lease charges for local network elements, affects telecom competition, investment …

Using a general-equilibrium simulation model featuring nominal rigidities and monopolistic competition in product and … labor markets, this paper estimates the macroeconomic benefits and international spillovers of an increase in competition …, greater competition produces large effects on macroeconomic performance, as measured by standard indicators. In particular, we …