rivals reduce their employment, sales and investment, while their profits increase around the time of a merger. …

rivals reduce their employment, sales and investment, while their profits increase around the time of a merger. …

four separate organization setups (Full Competition, Semi-collusion in Production, Semi-collusion in R&D and Full Collusion …). It is found that under technological proximity, competitions at the upstream stage depress R&D investment, and firms …

If the relation between investment and economic growth is well established in the macroeconomic literature, the … linking investment and firm performance in the French and Italian manufacturing industries. It does so by putting forth a … novel methodology to identify investment spikes that corrects for size dependence. While maintaining the desired properties …

to explain the low levels of investment in research and development (R&D) activities by Chilean firms. …

The study analyzes the impact of European antitrust enforcement on industry performance measured as competition … competitive market structure. We find that enforcement has a considerable effect, both on competition intensity and on … an increase in competition and productivity after the cartel break-up. The impact of vertical conduct is more complex …

. Costly investment in productivity appears feasible reaction to such type of competition and we find no evidence for …This study analyses empirically the effects of import competition on firm productivity (TFPQ) using administrative firm …-level panel data from German manufacturing. We find that only import competition from high-income countries is associated with …

. Costly investment in productivity appears feasible reaction to such type of competition and we find no evidence for …This study analyzes empirically the effects of import competition on firm productivity (TFPQ) using administrative firm …-level panel data from German manufacturing. We find that only import competition from high-income countries is associated with …