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 …

We extend the models in ("Competition in two-sided markets" of Armstrong (2006, Rand Journal of Economics) by adding …

The literature suggests that competition among schools might increase quality. However, not much empirical evidence is … present as only a few countries allow competition at a large scale. One exception is the Netherlands. Free parental choice is … Netherlands we show that there is a relation between competition and student achievement in upper secondary education, but that it …