loss that arises from more intense market competition: the low-cost firms’ profits may indeed increase with the number of … Ford’s strategy of disclosing its know-how publicly and extensively at the beginning of the 20th century. -- Competition …

forms of demand and retail competition. Whether countervailing buyer power arises, in the form of lower negotiated prices …

We assess the influence of competition and capital regulation on the stability of the banking system. We particularly … show that competition improves the monitoring incentives of better quality banks and deteriorates the incentives of lower … quality banks; and that precisely for those lower quality banks competition typically compromises the effectiveness of capital …

This paper models competition between two firms, which provide broadband In-ternet access in regional markets with … intensifies competition in all regions. We show that the cost-reducing potential of investments dominates the strategic effect …: Higher access fees increase facility-based competition, decrease retail prices and increase total demand. …

We show that competing firms relax overall competition by lowering future barriers to entry. We illustrate our findings …-period profits. This dampens competition for serving the first-period market. …

-dimensional spatial competition model. We develop a new methodology to analyze competition on a torus and show that there is a fundamental …, firms are likely to choose the minimal compatibility to maximize product differentiation and soften competition. This is in …

We analyze the effect of competition in market-accessibility enhancement among quality-differentiated firms. Firms are …