promotions affect how regular prices are determined endogenously under manufacturer competition. The possibility that competitors … may promote is a check on raising regular prices. Thus, manufacturer competition is as much about choosing regular prices … to analyze competition between two asymmetric manufacturers. We find that the regular price of the stronger brand is …

The rising phenomenon of private label brands across the globe has given grocery retailers new areas for competition … and growth. As a result, this has spiralled competition between private label brands (PLBs) and national brands (NBs … and national brands has also seen new trajectories. The purpose was to review earlier and current competition and identify …

In this paper, we investigate how retailer competition and asymmetry affect store brand strategy when some of the … consumers are one-stop shoppers. We find that when the intensity of competition between retailers is low, store brands can be … competition is high, the above price discrimination motive is absent, and store brands may be introduced to extract rents from one …

stockpiling induced by storability and durability. We accommodate competition across tied good systems and competing downstream …

retail competition is strong enough to prevent such distortions, we explore the commonly noted example of razors and blades … as well as time. This modeling feature enables a novel approach to measuring retail competition in single category demand …

As paid search becomes the mainstream platform for online advertising today, competition further intensifies. The main … effects of competition (measured by number of ads on the paid-search listings) on click-volume and CPCs of paid-search ads. On … the other hand, we are interested in understanding the determinants of competition, that is, how various demand and supply …

We investigate how competition for reputation among consumers can impact the effectiveness of firm interventions. In … lawsuits (firm interventions). Furthermore, competition from other uploaders who also seek to build their reputations impact … lawsuits. However, this decrease may create an opportunity for their high-reputation competition to increase their uploading …