Unlike standard auctions, we show that competitive procurement may optimally limit competition or use inefficient … auction to guard against firms bidding low to win the contract and then cutting back on effort. While competition helps reduce …

that this labor market competition channel can explain about one quarter of the large increase in the average immigrant …-native wage gap in the United States between the 1960s and 1990s arrival cohorts. Once competition effects and compositional …

competition policy is likely to face more challenges as large companies are becoming more common in more and more industries …

product market competition. When the intensity of product market competition increases, hirings and wages for female managers …

This paper studies the impact of hospital competition on waiting times. We use a Salop-type model, with hospitals that … from the closest hospital (monopoly segment). Compared with a benchmark case of monopoly, we find that hospital competition … hospital competition, the effect of increased competition depends on the parameter of measurement: Lower travelling costs …

more intense competition may have the negative side-effect of eroding tax revenues by increasing tax evasion. This will be … weakly concave or convex and inelastic. The desirable result of more competition, less evasion and higher tax revenues will …

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

This paper studies a market for a medical product in which there is perfect competition among health insurers, while …