Explanations of unethical behavior often neglect the role of competition, as opposed to greed, in assuring its spread … activities by universities, this paper clarifies the role of competition in promoting censured conduct. When unethical behavior … cuts costs, competition drives down prices and entrepreneurs' incomes, and thereby reduces their willingness to pay for …

impact of product market competition on productivity. Using a newly available panel data on around ten thousand firms in … Japanese manufacturing for the years 1994-2000, I show that competition, as measured by lower level of industrial price …

effects from "double marginalization" resulting from reduced competition among retailers. The imposition of exclusivity …

taking place for retail banking. Data on cross-border retail bank flows, cross-border bank mergers and the law of one price … reveal no evidence of integration in retail banking. This paper shows that the previous tests of bank integration are weak in … that they are not based on an equilibrium concept and are neither necessary nor sufficient statistics for bank integration …

-local firms. They therefore mostly buy locally, limiting firms' potential market size (and competition). We explore this …