enterprises try to gain a competitive edge over other competing firms in the market. In order to maintain a healthy competition in … the market, it is essential that the Competition Agencies take note of such activities and formulate penalties for the … Competition agencies are often faced with the dilemma as to which activities should be actually prohibited and which must be …

Electoral rules (Persson et al. 2003; Kunicova and Rose-Ackerman 2005) and competition (Charron 2011) affects the … of competition is an important factor in determining the degree to which politicians face investigations. These results …

The paper provides a general framework for the analysis of noncooperative competition between multi-branch networks …

and response. A structural embeddedness perspective with a focus on simultaneous cooperation and competition advances our …

innovation. Production capacities of both firms are product specific. It is shown that firms anticipate a future product … innovation by under-investing (if the new product is a substitute to the established product) and higher profits, and over … product at the same time, this leads to intensified competition and lower firm profits right after the new product has been …

The nature, and normative properties, of competition in health care markets has long been the subject of much debate … health insurance. Intuitively, it seems that imperfect competition in the health care market may constrain this moral hazard …

-market competition arise in a multisector economy that is affected by aggregate and sector-specific shocks. Aggregate volatility … versus sectoral disturbances and the overall degree of goods-market market competition. We find that these variables help …