We experimentally test two seminal hypotheses on the impact of competition on firms' management upgrading. In a first … experiment, we protect firms from labor market competition by reducing the risk that a freshly trained manager would be poached … suite of experiments, we boost perceived product market competition by informing firms either that rival firms have received …

A common approach to markets with adverse selection is to regulate competition to minimize inefficiencies, while …--as an alternative market design. Relative to regulated competition, auctions affect product variety, quality, markups, and …

Does an intensification of competition among banks increase or decrease liquidity creation? By integrating the dynamic … process of interstate bank deregulation that lowered barriers to competition across U.S. states over the 1980s and 1990s with … facing each individual bank. We find that regulatory-induced competition reduced liquidity creation. Consistent with some …

I review a subset of the empirical tools available for competition analysis. The tools discussed are those needed for …

only locally around equilibrium outcomes. Policy is needed because competition deters the socially optimal degree of …

Using an incentivized measure of test for competition, this paper investigates whether this taste explains subsequent …" individuals earn 9% more than their less competitive counterparts do. Moreover, gender differences in taste for competition …-paying industries nine years later, which suggests that the relation between taste for competition and earnings persists in the long run …

level of competition in a market. Using Medicare claims, we find that while providers in more competitive markets had higher …