Using data from the US automobile market, we empirically examine the link between competition and innovation … interesting market to examine the link between competition and innovation. We use firm-level time-series data over a long horizon … relationship is reasonably non-linear; (2) higher market-wide competition results in an increase in patenting, and the relationship …

We analyze competition between data intermediaries collecting information on consumers, which they sell to firms for … price discrimination purposes. We show that competition between data intermediaries benefits consumers by increasing … competition between firms, and by reducing the amount of consumer data collected. We argue that merger policy guidelines should …

limitations of the available data, and the potential implications of common ownership for competition in Australia. …

Launching and stimulating competition in telecommunications markets is an important policy goal. It contains two … elements: to encourage entry and to make competition effective such that consumers benefit. The first one requires that … to what extent such regulatory policy can stimulate competition. Our main finding is that, in the short run, asymmetric …

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

Open borders imply systems competition. This paper studies the implications of systems competition for the national co …

competition and stability in banking. There are two basic channels through which competition may increase instability: by … incentives to take risk and raise failure probabilities. The competition-stability trade-off is characterized and the … implications of the analysis for regulation and competition policy are derived. It is found that optimal regulation may depend on …

We propose an analysis of platform competition based on the academic literature with a view towards competition policy …. First, we discuss to which extent competition can emerge in digital markets and show which forms it can take. In particular … competition in platform markets. Second, we analyse competition policy issues and discuss how rules designed for standard markets …