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

. Drawing on longitudinal data from Germany, we find robust evidence that individuals having an internal LOC are more likely to …

and Wiley on the other side facilitate easy open access publishing for researchers located in Germany. We use a dataset of … publications in Wiley and Springer Nature journals at the cost of other journals. From that two related competition concerns emerge …

quality - but also with more competition among suppliers. Both associations hold only for parts involving comparatively … relationships involving higher trust, buyers are able to induce higher investment and more intense competition among suppliers - but …

competition. In this paper we provide the first empirical analysis of this relationship. We study Germany's retail gasoline market …Economic theory provides ambiguous and conflicting predictions about the association between algorithmic pricing and … on outcomes linked to competition. Because station-level adoption is endogenous, we use brand headquarter-level adoption …

This paper investigates competition between health insurance companies under different financing regulations. We … consider two alternatives advanced in recent German health care reform discussions: competition by contribution rates (health … contributions) and by fees (health premia). We find that contribution rate competition yields lower company profits and higher …

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 …