We integrate a market microstructure model with an exchange competition model with entry in which exchanges supply … strategic substitutes or complements in platform competition. Free entry of platforms delivers a superior outcome in terms of …

The concept of electoral competition plays a central role in many subfields of political science, but no consensus …

This paper studies a market for a medical product in which there is perfect competition among health insurers, while …

the high-quality firm’s product than vice versa. The high-quality firm is better shielded from price competition, as its …

win rebates can effectively encourage further conservation among those who can meet the threshold reduction. The theory …

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 …

We investigate the extent to which the intensity of political competition moderates the governance issues that arise in … competition in and between national parliamentary elections: the size of the majority of the governing party in the House; the … that greater political competition enhances fiscal stability, speeds up convergence of government size from above on …

Larger cities typically give rise to two opposite effects: tougher competition among firms and higher production costs …