This paper assesses the impact of product market competition on job instability as proxied by the use of fixed … Strategies Survey, I show that job instability rises with competition. In particular, a one standard deviation increase in … competition in an economic sector decreases the probability that a fixed-term worker gets an open-ended contract within that …

market competition affects the economic gain firms can obtain from innovation. Empirical evidence is lacking because the … innovation value is not observable, and the innovation-competition relationship is endogenous. This paper adopts a stock market … empirical challenges. Empirical analyses suggest a negative relationship between market competition and patent value and that a …