broker therefore strategically sells partial information on consumers in order to soften competition between firms. Extending …

This paper examines the relation between audit market competition and audit quality. We use the staggered introduction … threat of competition for incumbent audit firms. Using a generalized difference-in-differences design, we find that the … increased threat of competition induced by the opening of a bullet train route in a city leads to a 6.1 percentage point (pp …

incumbent sellers sell at higher prices than entrants. This study develops a theory of dynamic pricing that explains these facts … degree of awareness about a seller is endogenous. The equilibrium is unique and efficient, and features randomized pricing …

business model, and competition, result in the platform allowing one type of customers to participate in the platform for free … by the participants on the platform as well as have heightened focus on non-price competition when the participation for … concern a free platform side where there is no monetary measure of value. Finally, dynamic competition makes the analysis of …

I present a game-theoretic model where economic competition and attention competition are interdependent. On the one … price competition among all perceived firms. On the other hand attracting attention involves costs which must be covered by … the earnings from competition. It is the task of this paper to clarify the consequences of such an interdependence between …

platforms and platform competition, and elaborates on some routes taken by recent research. …

pricing algorithms that allow for high-frequency price changes. What are the implications for price competition? We develop a … model of price competition where firms can differ in pricing frequency and choose algorithms that autonomously react to …Increasingly, retailers have access to better pricing technology, especially in online markets. Firms employ automated …

surplus compared to duopoly competition between platforms that charge positive fees on content providers. We also discuss the …

intensified competition for consumers. …