The emergence of competition is a defining aspect of human nature and characterizes many important social environments …

In standard promotion tournaments, contestants are ranked based on their output or productivity. We argue that workers …

publications in Wiley and Springer Nature journals at the cost of other journals. From that two related competition concerns emerge …

competition shocks. We find that import competition leads to productivity increases in family-managed firms that are initially …When managers have objectives beyond maximizing monetary profits, inefficiencies may arise. An increase in competition … may then force managers to improve the productivity of the firm in order to ensure survival. While this hypothesis has …

competition. The model predicts that in the short run the least efficient firms in the industry become inactive, surviving firms … face a fall in output, mark-ups and profits, and the average productivity of survivors increases. These pro …

Firm heterogeneity is mostly discussed in the literature from the viewpoint of productivity differential. In contrast … through asset building. The theoretical and empirical results indicate that an increase in the initial level of competition … implies greater export incentive. However, over the life cycle of a firm, the role of competition is impacted by the intensity …

of multi-homing on both sides is mostly ignored in the literature on competition between two-sided platforms. We help … fill this gap by developing a model for platform competition in a differentiated setting (a Hoteling line), which is …