This article provides a simple account of the effect of quality competition on the extent of sequential entry …

finding is that firms? idiosyncratic efforts and the tendency for competition to equalize profit rates are two sides of the …

This paper examines whether competition pressures enhance firms' incentives to hide profits. By developing a novel … 20,000 large-and-medium-sized industrial firms in China for the 1995-2002 period, we find that competition is indeed … demonstrate stronger propensities to hide profits. Our analysis suggests that policies used to promote competition should be …

business model, and competition, result in the platform allowing one type of customers to participate in the platform for free … by the participants on the platform as well as have heightened focus on non-price competition when the participation for … concern a free platform side where there is no monetary measure of value. Finally, dynamic competition makes the analysis of …

product market competition is much weaker, depending on measurement and model specification: in some equations, domestic sales … reduction are substitutes, that privatization and competition are complements when the latter is measured as the geographic … scope of markets, and that competition and subsidy reduction are independent, in their impacts on Russian enterprise …

prescribing decisions impact the competition among molecules of a therapeutic class, once generic versions of one of these …

competition in private banking industry in India in an attempt to analyse the process of market dynamics in the industry. The … of competition proposed by Stigler (1961) and measured it by Bodenhorn’s (1990) measure of mobility. The study provides a … critique of the mechanism of inducing competition, which is implicit in the Narasimham Committee (1991). It then provides the …