One of the reasons why regulators are hesitant about permitting price competition in healthcare markets is that it may … admissions to Dutch hospitals, we find no evidence that increased exposure to price competition reduces quality measured by …

same time increases competition. As a result, the platform lowers the firm fees and raises the consumer charges. In … competition. In this case, the platform raises both the charge to the consumers and the fee for the firms. …

increase with the intensity of competition. We develop a new measure of competition for which we use the proximity (in … departure time) of a given flight to its competitors to infer the intensity of competition and estimate the impact of … competition on advance purchase discounts (APDs) and the dynamic pricing of airlines by exploiting plausibly exogenous changes in …

We consider the efficiency of Cournot and Bertrand equilibria in a duopoly with substitutable goods where firms invest … in process R&D. Under Cournot competition firms always invest more in R&D than under Bertrand competition. More … importantly, Cournot competition yields lower prices than Bertrand competition when the R&D production process is efficient, when …

in separate stages, as then firms want to limit the toll competition by setting lower capacities; or when firms set … higher capacities. In our Stackelberg competition, the firms that act last have few if any capacity decisions to influence …. Hence, they are more concerned with the toll-competition substage, and set a higher volume/capacity ratio than sociall y …