This paper addresses the issue of competition in the U.S. catfish industry. To this end, a conjectural variation …

channels more extensively in response to information received about competitors. Additionally, intensive market competition …

The number and the size of lots influence the degree of competition in a tendering procedure mainly through two … the relation between lots, participation, competition and collusion in tendering procedures, and proposes two simple … indexes that allow to evaluate whether expected competition increases or decreases when varying the number of lots. Also, it …

between product market competition and the level of innovative activity in an industry. Recent empirical papers point to an … inverted-U shape relationship between competition and innovation. Our paper offers theoretical support to these results while … show that firms solve this trade-off precisely so as to generate the inverted-U shape relationship. When the competition in …

This paper presents a new approach for measuring the effects of competition on school performance. We use an … equilibrium sorting model to generate an intuitive measure of the competition each school faces, captured by the slope of the … school’s demand curve. We then show that this competition measure is positively related to school performance using rich …