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 …

through asset building. The theoretical and empirical results indicate that an increase in the initial level of competition … implies greater export incentive. However, over the life cycle of a firm, the role of competition is impacted by the intensity … of capital accumulation and the initial level of wealth. Greater local competition before the entry of firms in the …

) strategic interactions appear to emerge from tax competition rather than yardstick competition, with capital controls and fiscal … the political agency (yardstick competition) does not necessarily engender a "race to the bottom". …

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

of winning and losing in a competition on the willingness to seek further challenges. Participants in a lab experiment … compete in two-person tournaments and are then informed of their score and the outcome of the competition. Conditional on the …

Increased competition tends to benefit all buyers with increasing product variety and decreasing prices. However, if … local and external market channels compete for the same class of products, increased competition from the external market …