quantify the theory, we bring together patent data, survey data on environmental values, and competition measures. Using a …This paper investigates the joint effect of consumers' environmental concerns and product-market competition on firms … intuition that socially responsible consumers induce firms to escape competition by pursuing greener innovations. To test and …

expectations of future profits which, in turn, depend on the nature of competition within the market. In this paper we estimate a … by potential entrants, fixed costs faced by incumbent producers, and the toughness of short-run price competition are all …

- and endogenous differences in the 'toughness' of competition across markets - in terms of the number and average … trade affect the toughness of competition, which then feeds back into the selection of heterogeneous producers and exporters …

, and in four industries the dispersion of establishment sizes depends on market size. Models of competition in which … competition is tougher in larger markets can reproduce the positive effect of market size on establishments' average size …

We build a theoretical model of multi-product firms that highlights how competition across market destinations affects … both a firm's exported product range and product mix. We show how tougher competition in an export market induces a firm to …