trust and trustworthiness in anonymous transactions. Market competition creates incentives that arguably may enhance or curb … the effectiveness of these systems. We investigate how different forms of market competition and social reputation … networks interact in a series of laboratory online markets, where sellers face a moral hazard. We find that competition in …

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

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 …

competition by a competitive fringe that produces low quality. We show that the brand manufacturer optimally provides a decoy good …

The paper provides an equilibrium analysis of how countries compete for migrants. The type of competition (tax or … transfer competition) depends on whether the competing countries have similar policy preferences. With symmetric preferences …, countries compete in taxes for migrants. With asymmetric preferences, migration competition takes place in income support levels …