Using data from the US automobile market, we empirically examine the link between competition and innovation … interesting market to examine the link between competition and innovation. We use firm-level time-series data over a long horizon …. Consistent with a large literature, we use patent counts as a measure of innovation. The combination of the US market's economic …

&D investment, and derive predictions on the effects of trust and competition on suppliers' investment and buyers' procurement … - but also with more competitive procurement: trust and rents from reduced supplier competition in the procurement process …

In this study, we examine the influence of competitiveness on the stability of labour relations using the example of … growing evidence on the external relevance of competitiveness by analysing gender differences in the correlation between … competitiveness and labour market success and whether these effects depend on how the students' propensity to compete is measured. By …

The concept of electoral competition plays a central role in many subfields of political science, but no consensus … exists on how to measure it. One key challenge is how to conceptualize and measure electoral competitiveness at the district … competitiveness which rest on explicit calculations about how votes translate into seats, but also implicit assumptions about how …

We merge experimental data on competitiveness of a large sample of students with their complete educational history for …

of winning and losing in a competition on the willingness to seek further challenges. Participants in a lab experiment … compete in two-person tournaments and are then informed of their score and the outcome of the competition. Conditional on the …

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

products’ attractiveness and endogenous competition. The model is motivated by two novel stylized facts using Danish … feature the toughest competition. Depending on the strength of competition, two sorting patterns are possible: one in which … quantifying our model, we find that product-specific differences in attractiveness and competition explain a quarter of the …

) strategic interactions appear to emerge from tax competition rather than yardstick competition, with capital controls and fiscal … the political agency (yardstick competition) does not necessarily engender a "race to the bottom". …