decrease when competition for employees is higher among firms. Using worker level data for Germany we find that the hypothesis …

-structural approach based on a dynamic model of monopsonistic competition. The empirical analysis is based on a linked employer …

This paper explores the relationship between the intensity of competition in product markets and firms' incentives to … us to differentiate between several measures for the intensity of competition. We establish that more firms in the … industry (i.e., lower entry costs) reduce the crime rate. Furthermore, whether more intense competition due to the increased …

rate competition and increases the banks price setting power as shown in Schliephake and Kirstein (2013). This paper … the enhanced price setting power can reverse the net effect that capital requirements have under perfect competition. …

, evidence that a high initial offer preempts competition is confined to the civil law countries. We find strong evidence for the …, the effect of termination fee provision on deterring competition and on offer success varies across time and countries …, while we observe no variation with respect to toeholds. Moreover, we find that latent (but unobservable) competition from …

We study product market competition between firm owners (principals) where workers (agents) decide on their efforts and … two compensation schemes lead to the same results. In case of product market competition, however, contest …