both increased competition and the enactment of equal treatment laws reduce the gender wage gap. …

in international data. More market orientation might be related to gender wage gaps via its effects on competition in …

product competition tends to increase the relative profitability of innovation for sale relative to entry. Increased … competition reduces entrants' and acquirers' profits in a similar fashion, but also reduces the profit of non-acquirers. Therefore …, incumbents' valuations of innovations are less negatively affected by increased competition than entrants' profits. This, in turn …

This paper analyses the impact of competition among downstream firms on an upstream firm's payoff and on its incentive … to vertically integrate when firms on both segments negotiate optimal contracts. We argue that tougher competition … firm is better off encouraging competition when the downstream firms have high bargaining power. We derive implications on …

potential to increase the intensity of competition as well as to act as a channel for technology transfers. One would expect …

In this paper firm level data are used to test whether competition affects productivity performance in three transition …

We investigate the effect of competition on quality in regulated markets (e.g., health care, higher education, public … competition (lower transportation costs and/or less sluggish demand) leads to higher quality in both solutions, but the quality … response to increased competition is weaker when players use closed-loop strategies. In both solutions, quality and demand move …

foreign and domestic competition, the consequences of soft budgets, and the role of managerial incentives and managerial human …

government regulation may reduce transaction costs, intensifying the competition associated with a given market structure, and we …