We analyze platform competition where user data is collected to improve adtargeting. Considering that users incur … overall competition is weak or if targeting benefits are low, too much private data is collected, and vice-versa. Further, we … find that softer competition on either market side leads to more data collection, which implies substitutability between …

Maternity unit closures are increasingly common in areas with low birth rates, resulting in diminished competition … between units. We examine how competition affects the quality and amenities of the remaining maternity units in Germany. To … address potential endogeneity in the level of competition, we exploit the unpopularity of maternity unit closures and …

This paper develops a three stage oligopoly game for R&D cooperation, R&D expenditure and product market competition …

demonstrate that due to decreasing individual output, intensified competition increases the incentive to save fixed costs of … but higher fixed costs than the domestic production, we show that the opposite effects concerning competition and taxation … occur. -- outsourcing ; cost structure ; Cournot-competition ; taxation …

number of licenses. Opening up the market for more firms has a two-fold effect: it increases competition and thus welfare … regulator hence faces a trade-off between raising beneficial competition and detrimental costs. If goods are sufficiently … competition. This result holds even in the absence of entry costs, search costs or increasing returns to scale, which previous …