This paper aims to shed light on firm specific drivers that lead firms to internationalise their innovation activities …’s competitive environment and the influence of innovation obstacles in the home country. In particular, the role of the potential … used to observe their impact on the decision to locate innovation activities in various countries and regions (China …

This Paper examines the effect of price competition on innovation, market structure and profitability in R …&D-intensive industries. The theoretical predictions are tested using UK data on the evolution of competition, concentration, innovation …

, hence the assumption of perfect competition when considering tax incidence might be misleading. Theoretically, in …

Does the internet increase competition? To address this question, I exploit two institutional details unique to Germany … treatment group with reduced online competition. (2) German law mandates resale price maintenance for books; I compare three … retailing sectors, electronics (price competition), books (no price competition), and food (no online sales), to identify the …

competition on the markup of the price leader. One more firm in the market is associated with a reduction of the price leader …’s markup which is equivalent to competition between existing firms for an additional three weeks in the product life cycle. Our … results support search theoretic models and contradict models of monopolistic competition. Moreover our results support the …

instrumenting is particularly important for estimating the effect of competition on the markup of the price leader. …