competitor. Any merger or acquisition (M&A) must be approved by a welfare maximizing domestic competition agency which may or may … of government. With an unbiased competition agency we find that the foreign takeover is more likely to occur the higher …

qualitative nature of our findings is similar between Cournot and Bertrand competition, suggesting that our results are robust to …

This paper studies oligopolistic competition in education markets when schools can be private and public and when the …

choices with data on the information acquisition process they follow. Subjects play a repeated Cournot oligopoly, with limited …

to higher unemployment. Also, increased international competition has no affect on the level of outsourcing, but the … outsourcing. Finally, the effect of increased foreign competition on welfare depends on the relative factor intensities of the two …

, firms are price-makers and wage-setters. Our setting combines monopolistic and monopsonistic competition, thus encapsulating …

This paper assesses the impact of product market competition on job instability as proxied by the use of fixed … Strategies Survey, I show that job instability rises with competition. In particular, a one standard deviation increase in … competition in an economic sector decreases the probability that a fixed-term worker gets an open-ended contract within that …