We uniquely examine the relationship between firm-sponsored training and product quality competition. Using an … oligopolistic model of both price and quality competition, we show that an increase in the sensitivity of demand to product quality … confirm that British establishments provide more intensive training when their competitive position is more sensitive to …

quantity-setting helps prevent market unraveling. -- Cournot competition ; quality ; duopoly ; asymmetric information ; Nash …

We analyze an oligopolistic competition with differentiated products and qualities. The quality of a product is not …-signaling competition. There are two regimes for separating equilibrium in our model depending on the parameters. Our analysis reveals that …, in one of the separating regimes, price signaling leads to intense price competition between the firms under which not …

This paper investigates the competition between vertically differentiated platforms in two-sided markets. We assume the …

How competition affects product quality and how product quality choices impact firms' operating performance are open … which product quality is inversely related to fake (inflated) trading volume. We examine the effects of competition among … consequences of trading volume inflation. Various static and dynamic competition measures are positively associated with measures …

increased price competition in the market for bundles. Absent bundling, each firm can exploit its limited market power and …

is shown that if R&D costs for quality improvements are low, the dynamic competition is structured as a race for being …