before the merger. While the low-variety target's stores reduced the depth of their assortment when in direct competition … chains’ response to changes in local competition. …

-price target’s stores reduced the depth of their assortment when in direct competition with the acquirer's stores, the latter … offerings in order to avoid cannibalization and lessen local competition. Further, we show that other dimensions of … heterogeneity, such as market concentration, whether a divestiture was imposed by the Dutch competition authority, and the re …

This paper empirically analyzes the effects of competition on price and non-price dimensions on the example of …

I re-examine the inverted-U relationship between competition and innovation (originally modeled and tested by Aghion et … competition by using a trade-weighted average of industry exchange rates as the instrument. I find a mildly negative relationship … between competition (as measured by the inverse of markups) and innovation (as measured by citation-weighted patents). The …

I re-examine the inverted-U relationship between competition and innovation (originally modeled and tested by Aghion et … competition by using various measures of foreign competition as instruments. I find a positive relationship between competition …