Can patent protection and product market competition complement each other in enhancing incentives to innovate? In this … product market competition interact with the strength of patent rights. We provide empirical evidence of innovation responding … with step-by-step innovation models predicting that product market competition enhances innovation and, more importantly …

Open borders imply systems competition. This paper studies the implications of systems competition for the national … competition rules. It is shown that an equilibrium where all countries retain their antitrust laws does not exist, since …

competition among large countries (US/EU) to negotiate preferential arrangements with smaller countries or regions will lower …

effectiveness, and how the quintessential features of blockchain reshape industrial organization and the landscape of competition … competition, yet the irreducible distribution of information during consensus generation may encourage greater collusion. In …

In this paper we review issues relating to antitrust and competition in health care markets. The paper begins with a … ways that might affect the optimality of competition. The paper then focuses on the main areas in which antitrust has been …

Competition in many important industries centers on investment in intellectual property. Firms engage in dynamic …, Schumpeterian competition for the market, through sequential winner-take-all races to produce drastic innovations, rather than … through static price/output competition in the market. Sound antitrust economic analysis of such industries requires explicit …

operated as competing mechanisms to control competition. Regulation produced cross-subsidies and favors to special interests …Since the passage of the Interstate Commerce Act (1897) and the Sherman Act (1890), regulation and antitrust have …, but specified prices and rules of mandatory dealing. Antitrust promoted competition without favoring special interests …

the effects of upstream competition vary with distance to frontier on a panel of 15 OECD countries and 20 sectors over … 1985-2007. Competitive pressures are proxied with sectoral product market regulation data. We find evidence that …