&D investment and their product market activities. Firstly, we find that in Cournot-quantity competition, owners strategically … compared to R&D competition, which in turn leads to increased R&D investment, reduced product prices and increased profits. …

competition. We find that leverage has strategic effects, but those effects are much weaker than predicted by theory. Specifically … effects on product market competition. We test their model in a duopoly experiment under both, Bertrand and Cournot …, we find for price competition a general tendency towards collusion, which has the same overall consequences - but …

than purely self-interested agents for a given prize structure. Contrary to standard tournament theory first-best efforts …