incumbent manufacturer transfer profits to retailers. If entry is accommodated, upstream competition leads to fierce down …- stream competition and the breakdown of RPM. Hence, via RPM, retailers internalize the effect of accommodating entry on the … effect of a retailer cartel. We also consider the effect of imperfect competition. Empirical and policy implications are …

in a hierarchy. The problem of designing an efficient policy to raise the status in this competition of a disadvantaged …

different compensation regimes. By varying the role that individual competition plays in setting the wage, we are able to … explore whether competition, by itself, can cause differential job entry. The data highlight the power of the compensation …

the effects of upstream competition vary with distance to frontier on a panel of 15 OECD countries and 20 sectors over …

first period. However, the male advantage is not found in any subsequent period of competition, or even after a two …-week break from competition. Some evidence suggests that males may actually perform worse than females in later periods. The … design of the competition and the task at hand. Even when the male advantage does exist, it does not persist beyond the …

longstanding legislative and regulatory calls for increased competition. The material entry of a third rating agency (Fitch) to the … competitive landscape offers a unique experiment to empirically examine how in fact increased competition affects the credit … ratings market. Increased competition from Fitch coincides with lower quality ratings from the incumbents: rating levels went …