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 …

and merchants that allow the collection of profiling information which drives innovation and welfare. Private incentives … competition between two platforms to study private and social incentives to share information. Sharing information can be welfare … price regulation over information sharing like the one applied in the EU jurisdiction increases the incentives of big …

We construct a tractable general equilibrium model of cumulative innovation and growth, in which new ideas strictly … the rate of innovation, as well as a separate optimal required inventive step that maximizes welfare, with the former …

levels and that higher innovation intensity and greater openness result in higher MFP. We also find that the impact of …

explain them. We then describe a theoretical framework of endogenous markups, innovation, and competition that can potentially …

. If the share of privacy-concerned users is sufficiently small, privacy regulation has a negative effect on innovation and …We analyze how a privacy regulation taking the form of a cap on information disclosure affects quality …-enhancing innovation incentives by a monopolist-who derives revenues solely from disclosing user data to third parties-and consumer surplus …

Launching and stimulating competition in telecommunications markets is an important policy goal. It contains two … elements: to encourage entry and to make competition effective such that consumers benefit. The first one requires that … difficult to achieve at the same time. In this paper, we consider price regulation in the retail and wholesale market and answer …

. Importantly, the theoretical model captures the strategic behavior between competing firms, its effect on their innovation …