incumbent manufacturer transfer profits to retailers. If entry is accommodated, upstream competition leads to fierce down …- stream competition and the breakdown of RPM. Hence, via RPM, retailers internalize the effect of accommodating entry on the … effect of a retailer cartel. We also consider the effect of imperfect competition. Empirical and policy implications are …

We study markdown timing decisions for perishable products in the presence of competition. We model as a duopoly two … monotonicity results may fail to hold in the presence of competition. In particular, a firm's revenue may be decreasing in its …

competition. In this paper we provide the first empirical analysis of this relationship. We study Germany's retail gasoline market … outcomes linked to competition. Because station-level adoption is endogenous, we use brand headquarter-level adoption decisions … increase by 28% in markets where both do. These results suggest that AI adoption has a significant effect on competition. …

competition. In this paper we provide the first empirical analysis of this relationship. We study Germany’s retail gasoline market … outcomes linked to competition. Because station-level adoption is endogenous, we use brand headquarter-level adoption decisions … increase by 28% in markets where both do. These results suggest that AI adoption has a significant effect on competition. …