This paper examines how product market competition affects firms' timing of adopting a new technology as well as … but also among markets with Cournot and Bertrand competition. More specifically, Cournot competition can lead to earlier … adoption than Bertrand competition. It shows also that competition toughness does not always reinforce adoption incentives …

Services form an increasing proportion of the inputs used in manufacturing. We explore empirically whether competition …-data for services, we calculate proxies for competition in services, and then use Input-Output matrices to link services to … manufacturing sectors. we find that there is a positive and significant relation between the extent of competition and firms …

Our novel approach to modeling monopolistic competition with heterogeneous consumers involves a space of … conditions for positive sorting: more efficient firms serve larger market segments and face tougher competition in the …

before the merger. While the low-variety target’s stores reduced the depth of their assortment when in direct competition … chains’ response to changes in local competition …