, We show that, in presence of licensing, the incentive for innovation may also be stronger under decentralized unions …

allocate his resources so as to direct his competition towards particular rivals -- we call such competition selective. The … setting can be applied to a wide variety of cases: competition between firms, competition between political parties, warfare …

We develop a method to measure the intensity of competition between firms. Our method, which we call the Best Response …

This paper sheds light on a recent empirical controversy about the effect of competition on price discrimination in … sales that is more skewed towards low prices. We show that whether competition has a positive or a negative effect on the …

increase with the intensity of competition. We develop a new measure of competition for which we use the proximity (in … departure time) of a given flight to its competitors to infer the intensity of competition and estimate the impact of … competition on advance purchase discounts (APDs) and the dynamic pricing of airlines by exploiting plausibly exogenous changes in …

structure characterised by its extent of specialisation, competition and diversity, to yield innovation and productivity growth … (diversity) and Porter externalities (competition) that have provided alternative explanations for innovation and urban growth …Innovation and technological change are central to the quest for regional development. In the globally …

this controversy using a model of regional growth. The model also deals with the impact of local competition on innovation …The importance of knowledge spillovers for achieving innovation and economic growth is widely recognized. It is not … competition is important particularly for economic growth in industry sectors (manufacturing and construction), while diversity, a …