Using German establishment data, this paper examines the relationship between product market competition and the extent … of employer provided training. We demonstrate that high product market competition is associated with increased training … except when the competition is so severe as to threaten liquidation to a firm. We take this as evidence of an inverted U …

Using a large panel data set of German manufacturing establishments, this paper investigates the impact of competition … relationship between product market competition and firms' incentives to invest in employees' general skills (Gersbach and … Schmutzler 2006). In our empirical analysis, product market competition is approximated by various measures of competition such …

Fatih Cemils main specialization field is competition and regulatory economics. In this dissertation, he conducts … electricity distribution. These experiments take place in different countries such as the Netherlands, Germany and New Zealand … of the confidential exemption requests in the Netherlands, which were allowed under the new Competition Act. The second …

manufacturing incumbent establishments. The perceived pressure of competition is stronger the higher the level of entries in the … start-ups across all regions of Germany. The productivity level of an incumbent moderates the extent of the perceived …