Amazon and the major publishers in the e-book market require competition policy action. The standard antitrust instruments …

part, due to app service failure(s). Do app failures influence purchases made within the online channel? Are there any …

and market size of the innovation. The appropriate degree of market power is never full monopoly pricing and is determined … empirical calibration. The framework has applications beyond IP policy to the optimal pricing of platforms or the optimal …

competition. The model is built on the assumption of a product market and has not yet been empirically tested on service …-sector firms. Using detailed firm-level data, we find the inverse U-shaped relation to hold for both small and large service …-sector firms. However, non-exporting service firms deviate from the overall pattern. A more detailed breakdown of innovation …

This paper concerns the operation of competition in the presence of a high rate of innovation and increasing returns …. Given free competition there is likely to exist, in this case, a tendency towards what may be called ‘dynamic equilibrium … this investment yields only a normal return. Thus, competition, increasing returns and innovation may co-exist. …

between product market competition and the level of innovative activity in an industry. Recent empirical papers point to an … inverted-U shape relationship between competition and innovation. Our paper offers theoretical support to these results while … show that firms solve this trade-off precisely so as to generate the inverted-U shape relationship. When the competition in …