foreign and domestic competition, the consequences of soft budgets, and the role of managerial incentives and managerial human …

government regulation may reduce transaction costs, intensifying the competition associated with a given market structure, and we …

This paper analyses the impact of competition among downstream firms on an upstream firm's payoff and on its incentive … to vertically integrate when firms on both segments negotiate optimal contracts. We argue that tougher competition … firm is better off encouraging competition when the downstream firms have high bargaining power. We derive implications on …

complements this pattern is reinforced while under competition in substitutes the principals trade off the benefits of …

This Paper examines the importance of competition in the growth and development of firms. We make use of the large …-scale natural experiment of the shift from an economic system without competition to a market economy to shed light on the factors … environment, and needed to innovate at least modestly in order to survive. Second, we measure directly the degree of competition …

efficiency and compare them to those in the statistical literature. We consider the relation between competition and efficiency …

impact of several dimensions of market competition and other factors on enterprise efficiency. We analyse 1992-1998 panel …, intensity, time path, and survival effects of competitive pressures. We find large, positive effects on TFP from competition in …

This Paper examines competition between a dominant network and a challenging network with third-degree or perfect price … competition and reduces average equilibrium prices. Because bandwagon effects are due to the incompatibility of networks, under … incentives to unilaterally degrade the quality for some targeted group of consumers in order to weaken competition. …

In this Paper we analyse the impact of product market competition and ownership structure on corporate performance. We … the separate effects of competition and ownership concentration on firm level productivity growth. Next, we investigate … bias that could affect the productivity levels and productivity growth. Our results show that product market competition …