less educated consumers with lower savings are most affected. Our findings highlight the important role of competition …

correlated with its quality. Open source may weaken or invert this relationship by giving Bertrand competition losers a second … chance. It however follows that though open source leads to more competition and more standardization, the chosen standard …

on actual competition and contract outcomes are ambiguous. We pool a decade of US federal procurement data to shed light …

We investigate the impact of product market competition on firms’ automation investments. We use a rich combination of … micro-data on Portuguese exporters and exploit a novel source of variation in the degree of competition they face – a tariff … competition in export markets tend to reduce investments in automation technologies. These average negative effects are driven by …

We analyze platform competition where user data is collected to improve adtargeting. Considering that users incur … overall competition is weak or if targeting benefits are low, too much private data is collected, and vice-versa. Further, we … find that softer competition on either market side leads to more data collection, which implies substitutability between …