"Antitrust enforcement has long been focused on price competition-approving or denying mergers based on whether or not it would create or reduce opportunities for consumers to be able to "shop around" for the lowest prices when it comes to internet access, cable subscriptions, airfare, and so...

<Emphasis Type="Bold">Background: Information is lacking on the relative effectiveness and cost effectiveness — in a real-life primary-care setting — of leukotriene receptor antagonists (LTRAs) and long-acting β2 adrenergic receptor agonists (β2 agonists) as add-on therapy for patients whose asthma symptoms are...</emphasis>

<Emphasis Type="Bold">Background: Information is lacking on the relative effectiveness and cost effectiveness — in a primary-care setting — of leukotriene receptor antagonists (LTRAs) as an alternative to inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) for initial asthma controller therapy. <Emphasis Type="Bold">Objective: To compare the cost...</emphasis></emphasis>

Licensing promotes technology transfer and innovation, but enforcement of licensing contracts is often imperfect. We explore the implications of weak enforcement of contractual commitments on the licensing conduct of firms and market performance. An upstream firm develops a technology that it...

Brand proliferation is examined as an instrument of competition among established firms and as a means to limit entry in a model with both firm and product-specific differentiation. We find that the incentives to proliferate, the credibility of proliferation as an entry barrier, and the welfare...