We consider competition for market shares between two firms that make costly investments to attract and retain … value and the initial state of the market on competition. The initial state of the market is either randomly assigned or … retention value rises, but only when it is sufficiently high. Investment also rises with initial market share when it is low …

and the jury’s first prize are awarded to the same person or group. Using data on 370 competition-editions held between … 1979 and 2021 across nine competition-types (e.g., piano, strings, woodwinds and brass, voice, etc.,) hosted in 22 … audience and jury varies across competition-types and countries. We then explore gender bias and host country bias as possible …

This paper studies how target industry competition affects shareholder gains around mergers and acquisitions. We find … that industry competition does not affect the combined (bidder and target) announcement returns; however, when taken … bidder announcement returns associated with higher industry takeover competition are mitigated when bidders are from …

industry competition. For identification, we utilise the change in state level competition that followed the passage of the US … create-dominant organizational cultures have higher discretionary LLPs when competition increases. Moreover, banks use …