This paper investigates how video game publishers’ choice of game release date is affected by the expected level of competition within the game’s product niche. We identify game niches by genre, age-appropriateness, a four week window cohort, publisher and console system. Our analysis is...

We investigate how competition in product niches affects the ultimate timing of product release for experience goods using data on motion pictures in the United States. We identify product niches that movies occupy along three different product dimensions: common actor, common director, and...

A panel of province by year data for China from 1998 to 2007 is used to estimate own- and cross-price elasticities for fixed and mobile telephone service. Identification is achieved through the use of measures of the level of competition and privatization of the industry. Moreover, using...

We propose an empirical strategy for estimating competition in innovation markets based on a model of creative-destruction. Our method relates firms’ market return on equity to information about patent citation patterns. Two innovations we introduce are using daily abnormal stock returns...