competition policy is likely to face more challenges as large companies are becoming more common in more and more industries …

Does access to information and communication technologies (ICT) increase innovation? We examine this question by …

We examine the effect of inter-group fiscal competition on within-group violent conflict. Using a triple difference … that higher competition between villages reduces conflict but only up to moderate levels of competition. The conflict …-reducing effects of competition are largest in the most ethnically fractionalized and segregated villages and exist regardless of the …

I show how changes in competition affect the power of reputation to induce sellers to exert effort. The impact of … competition on sellers' incentives is theoretically ambiguous. More competition disciplines sellers, but, at the same time, it … the value of building a reputation through effort. In this framework, more competition depresses hosts' profits and leads …

of multi-homing on both sides is mostly ignored in the literature on competition between two-sided platforms. We help … fill this gap by developing a model for platform competition in a differentiated setting (a Hoteling line), which is …

We focus on the estimation of market entry costs that are declining over time and evaluate their impact on competition …