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We find that common ownership leads VCs to stifle competition among startups, but only in limited circumstances. Our evidence is from pharmaceutical startups, where common ownership is widespread. We examine how a startup responds after seeing a competitor make progress on a related drug...
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oligopoly. We start from a linear Cournot model to motivate our more general reduced-form framework. For this general framework …
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oligopoly competition and identify the shape and magnitude of the feedback loop between TV viewers and advertisers. We also …
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This paper characterises the impact of vertical integration on price equilibria and incentives to strategically withhold capacity in a wholesale electricity auction. A two-stage game is analysed where vertically integrated firms first declare the quantity of electricity available and then...
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. This empirical prediction is tested on data about recommendations on IPOs. The main result is that analysts working for the …This work investigates both theoretically and empirically how the behaviour of financial analysts is affected by … competition, measured as the strength of coverage of a stock from other analysts. The interaction among analysts and investors is …
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This paper examines how product market competition and strategic interactions among peer firms influence analyst coverage. First, we hypothesize that product market competition increases both the demand and supply of analyst coverage. Using three variations of industry concentration ratios and a...
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We investigate the incentives for vertical or horizontal integration in the financial security service industry, consisting of trading, clearing and settlement. We thereby focus on firms' decisions but also look on the implications of these decisions on competition and welfare. Our analysis...
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We show that, in the case when innovations are for sale, increased product market competition, captured by reduced product market profits, can increase the incentives for innovations. The reason is that the incentive to innovate depends on the acquisition price which, in turn, might increase...
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This article examines the effects of market structure on the variety of research projects undertaken and the amount of duplication of research. A characterization of the equilibrium market portfolio of R&D projects and the socially optimal portfolio is provided. It is shown that a merger...
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