The U.S. and EU Merger Guidelines strongly emphasize the relevance of the “ease of entry” argument in merger … number of firms in related product markets. Finally, our results confirm that post-merger changes in the equilibrium number …

This study evaluates the role market competition plays in determining inflation based on sector-level data from OECD … of market competition. This study shows that inflation decreases with greater market competitiveness even after … controlling for productivity effects. Indeed, when market competition and productivity effects are both accounted for, trade …

Using data from the U.S. automobile market, we empirically examine the link between competition and innovation … this an interesting market to examine the link between competition and innovation. We use firm-level time-series data over … patenting, and the relationship is reasonably non-linear; (2) higher market-wide competition results in an increase in patenting …

The relationship between competition and performance-related pay has been analyzed in single … competition when aggregated firm data is used …

stress that competition and regulatory authorities should take seriously the potential trade-off between market power effects …

prices and features of goods without incurring search costs. The platform alleviates sellers' competition by charging them …

local credit markets. We provide evidence that marginal increases in interbank competition are detrimental to relationship … technologies are al-ready widely in use in the market by a large group of small mutual banks, an increase in competition may drive …

differential merger outcomes are caused mostly by firms' technology or product market attributes. Furthermore, empirical merger …. We allow the merger responses to vary across firms, even after controlling for regressors, and apply a random …