manufacturing firms to source materials from abroad. To guide our empirical analysis we develop a monopolistic-competition model of …

In a recent paper, Alipranti et al. (2014, Price vs. quantity competition in a vertically related market, Economics … Letters, 124: 122-126) show that in a vertically related market Cournot competition yields higher social welfare compared to … Bertrand competition if the upstream firm subsidises the quantity setting downstream firm's production via negative wholesale …

This paper empirically investigates the advertising competition in the French broadcast television industry within a … oligopoly competition and identify the shape and magnitude of the feedback loop between TV viewers and advertisers. We also … implement a simple procedure to identify the conduct of firms on the market. We find that the nature of competition in the …

broker therefore strategically sells partial information on consumers in order to soften competition between firms. Extending …

Empirical studies have uncovered an inverted-U relationship between product-market competition and innovation. This is … inconsistent with the original Schumpeterian Model, where greater competition reduces the profitability of innovation. We show that … the model can predict the inverted-U if the innovators' talent is heterogenous, and privately observable. With competition …

This paper investigates competition between health insurance companies under different financing regulations. We … consider two alternatives advanced in recent German health care reform discussions: competition by contribution rates (health … contributions) and by fees (health premia). We find that contribution rate competition yields lower company profits and higher …

that funding competition does not rectify the investment inefficiency nor will it improve pooling of individual income … competition and restricted participation yields the highest level of social welfare …

Applying a framework of perfect competition under uncertainty, we contribute to the discussion of whether or not ad … pathwise. Since we obtain this result under perfect competition, our analysis also provides a further rationale for why the … equivalence must fail under imperfect competition …