This paper sheds light on an empirical controversy about the effect of competition on price discrimination. We … shows that whether competition has a positive or negative effect on price dispersion depends on the level of demand …

In a recent paper, Alipranti et al. (2014, Price vs. quantity competition in a vertically related market, Economics … Letters, 124: 122-126) show that in a vertically related market Cournot competition yields higher social welfare compared to … Bertrand competition if the upstream firm subsidises the quantity setting downstream firm's production via negative wholesale …

-Nash equilibria in a duopoly. Comparing equilibrium prices to the prices set by a multiproduct monopolist, we show that competition … drives prices up and may lead to price dispersion. Competition reduces total surplus in the short run but provides higher …

competition between the TV channels, since they take into account the fact that a lower viewer price at one channel will harm …

The relationship between competition and performance-related pay has been analyzed in single … competition when aggregated firm data is used …

Applying a framework of perfect competition under uncertainty, we contribute to the discussion of whether or not ad … pathwise. Since we obtain this result under perfect competition, our analysis also provides a further rationale for why the … equivalence must fail under imperfect competition …