Consumers often benefit from increased competition in differentiated product settings. In this paper we consider … consumer benefits from increased competition in a differentiated product setting: the spread of non-traditional retail outlets …

This paper provides experimental evidence on the effect of increased competition on prices and quality in the retail … areas where the number of entrants was larger. Competition seems to have driven part of the clientele away from incumbent …

We analyze a number of unstudied aspects of retail electricity competition. We first explore the implications of load … homogeneous up to a scaling factor. In general, the combination of retail competition and load profiling does not yield the second … consumption, retail competition yields the Ramsey prices even when consumers can only partially respond to variations in real time …

This paper develops a dynamic model of retail competition and uses it to study the impact of the expansion of a new …

We investigate the impact of access to convenience stores and competition between convenience store chains on medical … levels of inter-brand competition reduce the use and cost of outpatient medical services and prescription drugs, healthcare … utilization is more responsive to changes in competition. Since convenience stores in Taiwan are typically the healthier option …

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