quality - but also with more competition among suppliers. Both associations hold only for parts involving comparatively … relationships involving higher trust, buyers are able to induce higher investment and more intense competition among suppliers - but …

We argue that, in a simple setting, the relation between the intensity of competition and cost-reducing investment is U … is minimal for intermediate levels of competition, which is inversely parameterized by the extent of product …

The paper analyzes the effects of more intense competition on firms' incentives to invest in process innovations. We … carry out experiments for two-stage games, where R&D investment choices are followed by product market competition. As …

This paper investigates the relationship between telecommunications infrastructure competition, investment and …

equilibrium unemployment. The relationship between the long-run unemployment and the intensity of product market competition is …

Using a general two-stage framework, this paper gives sufficient conditions for increasing competition to have negative … relatively narrow definitions of increasing competition. The paper also shows that competition is more likely to increase the … investments of leaders than those of laggards. When R&D-spillovers are strong, competition is less likely to increase investments …