Oligopoly models of price competition predict that strategic firms exercise market power and generate inefficiencies …

(QHFT) model, we classify export goods (at the HS 6-digit level of disaggregation) by quality and price competition. We find … a high proportions of quality-competition goods for the major EU countries and lower proportions for Canada, Australia … and China. However, the overlap of these quality-competition goods is not large, which suggests that characteristics of …

This paper provides experimental evidence on the effect of increased competition on prices and quality in the retail … areas where the number of entrants was larger. Competition seems to have driven part of the clientele away from incumbent …

and inventories, as the firms are more able to avoid the intense competition in low inventory states. While average bids …