the opportunity for managerial slack. Consistent with the notion that competition mitigates managerial slack, we find that …, firms in competitive industries experience no significant effect. When we examine which agency problem competition mitigates …

taxation, can generate a loss of competitiveness (defined as an increase in relative unit labor costs for tradable goods), an …

industrial policies allocated to competitive sectors or that foster competition in a sector increase productivity growth. We … measure competition using the Lerner Index and include as industrial policies subsidies, tax holidays, loans, and tariffs …. Measures to foster competition include policies that are more dispersed across firms in a sector or measures that encourage …

at which they upgrade the quality of their products. We analyze the effect of import competition on quality upgrading …

host-country research and development effort in response to foreign competition, is one of three examining the impact of …

We examine competition amongst ridesharing platforms where firms compete by choosing both the price of rides and the … involve monopoly or competition under various multihoming regimes, depending on the density of the city, and the relative …

competition between the two channels, the paper uses a two step approach. First, it fits hedonic regressions for the prices paid …