Using a large panel data set of German manufacturing establishments, this paper investigates the impact of competition … on training incidence as well as on the number of trained workers. According to theory, one would expect a negative … relationship between product market competition and firms' incentives to invest in employees' general skills (Gersbach and …

Boone (2008a) proposes a new competition measure based on Relative Profit Differences (RPD) with superior theoretical … indicator fails to correctly indicate competition. A proposed augmented indicator based on RPDs performs better. The traditional … Lerner-Index is still the only meas-ure that correctly indicates the expected competitive changes. -- Competition ; Boone …

comparison with the United States. It has been argued that lack of product market competition and poor corporate governance are … product market competition experience higher rates of productivity growth. We also find weak evidence for the notion that in …

Im Schienenpersonenfernverkehr bestehen trotz Bahnstrukturreform weiterhin hohe Markteintrittsbarrieren. Der Wettbewerb … innovativen Regulierungsansatz vor, um den intramodalen Wettbewerb im Schienenpersonenfernverkehr zu beleben. Mitbewerbern der …Regulatory efforts to introduce effective intramodal competition to the rail sector, in particular to the long …

Economic theory provides ambiguous and conflicting predictions about the association between algorithmic pricing and … competition. In this paper we provide the first empirical analysis of this relationship. We study Germany's retail gasoline market … on outcomes linked to competition. Because station-level adoption is endogenous, we use brand headquarter-level adoption …

Economic theory provides ambiguous and conflicting predictions about the association between algorithmic pricing and … competition. In this paper we provide the first empirical analysis of this relationship. We study Germany's retail gasoline market … outcomes linked to competition. Because station-level adoption is endogenous, we use brand headquarter-level adoption decisions …