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 … with step-by-step innovation models predicting that product market competition enhances innovation and, more importantly …

the effects of upstream competition vary with distance to frontier on a panel of 15 OECD countries and 20 sectors over … 1985-2007. Competitive pressures are proxied with sectoral product market regulation data. We find evidence that …

of the individual insurance market, the Marketplaces invoke many of the principles of regulated competition including … the tools of regulated competition. We then discuss ways in which the Marketplace model deviates from the more …

government designs the rules of the game has an impact on concentration, competition, and prices. Pro-competition regulation …We study how political factors shape competition in the mobile telecommunication sector. We show that the way a … competition. Government intervention has large redistributive effects: U.S. consumers would gain $65bn a year if U.S. mobile …

; they do not include the likely fee increases resulting from less competition among auditors. We calculate that the latter …

This paper examines the role of regulation and competition in generic markets. Generics offer large potential savings … prompt entry, aggressive price competition and patient switching to generics. Key features are that pharmacists are …