industries, the unintended effect of restrictions on foreign direct investment (FDI) in services can be to make indigenous firms …, increase competition in service markets and reduce the prices of services, the impacts on other sectors of host countries are … competitiveness of those industries, including through greater competition among domestic and foreign firms …

, the leader’s R&D effort increases with the gap as she is trying to avoid competition in the future. When firms gain … causes an equilibrium where the incentives to innovate are highest when competition is most intense. -- competition …

accumulation the leader's R&D effort increases with the gap as she is trying to avoid competition in the future. When firms gain … causes an equilibrium where the incentives to innovate are highest when competition is most intense. -- competition …

This paper investigates how competition and firm size affect the relationship between market uncertainty and Ramp …;D investment. We use an intuitively appealing measure of firm-specific uncertainty along with panel data to show that firms invest …;D investment is smaller in concentrated markets - those where market power is higher and strategic rivalry is more intense. Further …

This paper addresses two puzzles related to industrial dynamics and competition. The first of these puzzles is that a … globalization affects competition and distinguish forces that foster concentration and forces that are conducive for market …

of international trade which incorporates the new trade theory as well as aspects of the theory of multinational …