that supra competitive prices are necessary to promote innovation; significant disagreements arise over how much pricing … part tariffs, research on innovation prizes, performance-based contracts, and draws on the mechanism design literature …

satisfy two conditions in equilibrium: (1) a zero-profit condition among miners, who engage in a rent-seeking competition for …

-local firms. They therefore mostly buy locally, limiting firms' potential market size (and competition). We explore this …

We investigate the impact of access to convenience stores and competition between convenience store chains on medical … levels of inter-brand competition reduce the use and cost of outpatient medical services and prescription drugs, healthcare … utilization is more responsive to changes in competition. Since convenience stores in Taiwan are typically the healthier option …

The correlation between productivity and competition is an oft–observed but ill–understood result. Some suggest that … there is a treatment effect of competition on measured productivity, e.g. through a reduction of managerial slack. Others … argue that greater competition makes unproductive establishments exit by reallocating demand to their productive rivals …

and inventories, as the firms are more able to avoid the intense competition in low inventory states. While average bids …

Theoretical models of competition with fixed prices suggest that hospitals should compete by increasing quality of care … for diseases with the greatest profitability and demand elasticity. Most empirical evidence regarding hospital competition … within hospitals across quality measures. And second, while we replicate the standard result that greater competition leads …

restraints, thereby, soften retail competition—an impact also generated by resale price maintenance (RPM). However, by …