positive impact on the quality of the service provided. We also assess the impact of competition from an alternative form of … technology (cable) which is not subject to regulation, and what we discover is that inter-platform competition has a positive …

This paper analyzes the impact of labor market competition and skill-biased technical change on the structure of … compensation. The model combines multitasking and screening, embedded into a Hotelling-like framework. Competition for the most … perfect competition, the resulting efficiency loss can be larger than that imposed by a single firm or principal, who distorts …

This paper compares the welfare effects of three ways in which health care can be organized: no competition (NC …), competition for the market (CfM) and competition on the market (CoM) where the payer offers the optimal contract to providers in …

selection with heterogeneous buyers and sellers consistent with these findings in which tougher competition induces a better … tougher competition leads to higher productivity and higher welfare and hints at an additional source of gains from trade as … long as freer trade fosters competition. …

complements this pattern is reinforced while under competition in substitutes the principals trade off the benefits of …

competition in the banking sector during the 1970s spurred banks to supply credit through multilateral arrangements. Firms that …

increased competition. We assemble a large data set on elderly care services in Sweden between 1990 and 2009 and estimate how … competition significantly improved non-contractible quality as measured by mortality rates. It also reduced the cost per resident …

. Third, the effect of platform competition on search diversion incentives depends on the nature of competition. Competition … for advertising leads to more search diversion relative to competition for consumers. Both types of competition lead to at …

economics. This paper explores voting on a scheme of intergroup competition which facilitates cooperation in a social dilemma … situation. Experimental results show that the competitive scheme fosters cooperation. Competition is popular but the electoral … outcome depends strongly on specific voting rules of institutional choice. If the majority decides, competition is almost …