I study the effect of increasing competition on financial performance through labour leverage. To capture competition …

innovation intensity to escape competition. The U-shaped relation is more pronounced in industries where firms compete in …

the fundamental question: What is competition? Only in understanding competition can one understand what competition can … or cannot achieve under certain circumstances. This Article reexamines one premise of competition, namely the extent to … Article maps four scenarios of competition. Competition authorities should revisit their conception of competition, including …

countries is long overdue: the treatment of public policies that suppress competition. Whereas the European Union (“EU”) and … to enact laws that restrain competition. Further, individual groups are largely free to lobby for laws designed to erect … available to both public and private enforcers of the U.S. antitrust laws to challenge state-imposed restraints on competition …

pay and performance. To the extent that product-market competition can affect the incentive schemes offered by firms to … their executives, the analysis of the effects of competition on the structure of compensation may be informative for policy …

The paper introduces a novel experimental procedure to elicit individual preferences for competition. In contrast to … the competitiveness measure by Niederle and Vesterlund (2007), the design disentangles preferences for competition from … preferences for competition is confirmed, however in contrast to existing studies it is unconfoundedly identified. Further more …