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 …

banks. We find that more competition leads to more risk taking. We also examine the effects of bank competition on the …This paper studies empirically the relationship between competition and risk taking in banking markets. We exploit an … unique dataset providing information about all bank loans to Norwegian firms over several years. Rather than relying on …

In this paper we analyse the bank merger between DnB and Gjensidige Bank in 2003, ranked by market share as number one … and number three in the Norwegian bank market. Focusing on loans to firms, our difference-in-differences analysis shows no … remedial measures imposed by the Norwegian Competition Authority on the two merging parties are also likely to explain some of …

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 …