Managers like to think well of themselves, and of the firms that employ them. However, positive illusions can bias a manager's evaluation of market outcomes, self-servingly crediting success on the superior quality of one's own product but blaming failure on the aggressive price of a...

This paper searches the differences in competitive balance and concentration ratios in economic terms in the Liga BBVA. The idea is to compare if income inequality is related to and increase competitive imbalance

We investigate the strategic impact of exible delivery frequencieson the competition of logistics service providers (LSPs) in a supplychain. LSPs compete for customers who choose an exclusive serviceprovider based on their individual preference, prices and inventorycosts. The service provider...

Es vergeht kaum eine Woche, in der nicht neue, meistens grenzüberschreitende Fusionen verkündet werden. Die Zusammenschlüsse bieten nicht nur neue wirtschaftliche Chancen, sondern werfen auch Fragen nach einer Neugestaltung der internationalen Wettbewerbsordnung auf. In seinem Beitrag erteilt...

In many countries, the legal system or social norms ensure that firms are stakeholder oriented. We analyze the advantages and disadvantages of stakeholder-oriented firms that are concerned with employees and suppliers compared to shareholder-oriented firms in a model of imperfect competition....

This essay reviews and synthesizes some recent literature on the competitive effects of exclusive dealing agreements. I outline various procompetitive rationales for the practice including the non-dilution of incentives, protection of relationship-specific investments, and the elimination of...

Digital platforms, empowered by artificial intelligence algorithms, facilitate efficient interactions between consumers and merchants that allow the collection of profiling information which drives innovation and welfare. Private incentives, however, lead to information asymmetries resulting in...

Are dominant online search engines monopolies enjoying low contest-ability, due to high barriers to entry, or innovative first-movers? This paper argues that dominant online search engines maintain their leadership through an “innovation feedback loop”: a process whereby increasing R&D...

We find a U-shaped relation between industry concentration and innovation. The relation is driven by neck-and-neck industries where firms operate with similar productivity. When industry concentration is low, innovation intensity decreases as concentration increases. However, when industry...

Digital platforms, empowered by artificial intelligence algorithms, facilitate efficient interactions between consumers and merchants that allow the collection of profiling information which drives innovation and welfare. Private incentives, however, lead to information asymmetries resulting in...