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The impact of competition intensity on labour productivity growth in Canada

Faryaar, Hassan; Rosell, Carlos; Stegnjaic, Nina - 2026

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Knappe Trassen, klare Regeln : ein Credit-Modell für fairen Wettbewerb im Schienenpersonenfernverkehr

Schmal, Wolfgang Benedikt - 2026

Der Wettbewerb im Schienenfernverkehr konzentriert sich naturgemäß auf Verbindungen, auf denen hohe Nachfrage, attraktive Zahlungsbereitschaft und betriebliche Skalenvorteile zusammentreffen. Dazu zählen vor allem die großen Magistralen zwischen den Metropolregionen. Viele andere...

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Identifying competitive position for sixteen major Asia-Pacific hubs after the COVID-19 pandemic

Chang, Yu-Chun; Yu, Hsi-Tung - 2026

The COVID-19 pandemic profoundly disrupted global aviation networks, with long-haul connectivity particularly affected. This study assesses the evolving competitive positions of sixteen major hub airports in the Asia-Pacific region by analyzing their transfer-connectivity performance before and...

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Why Is competition in the European football market failing, and what should be done about it?

Henrekson, Magnus; Persson, Lars - 2026

The European football (soccer) market increasingly funnels rents to superstar players and intermediaries while weakening competitive balance. We trace this dynamic to two forces: (a) technological innovation that globalized broadcasting and magnified superstar returns, and (b) legal rulings...

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Why is competition in the European football market failing, and what should be done about it?

Henrekson, Magnus; Persson, Lars - 2025

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Disbanding the Federal Communications Commission?

Jamison, Mark A. - 2026

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Disbanding the federal communications commission

Jamison, Mark A. - 2026

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Designing vertical differentiation with information

Carnehl, Christoph; Sobolev, Anton; Stahl, Konrad; … - 2026 - Original version: October 2024, this version: February 2026

We study information design in a vertically differentiated market. A third party publicly discloses information about the product qualities of two competing firms. More precise information improves consumer matching but increases perceived differentiation, enabling firms to raise prices....

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Designing vertical differentiation with information

Carnehl, Christoph; Sobolev, Anton; Stahl, Konrad; … - 2025

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Designing vertical differentiation with information

Carnehl, Christoph; Sobolev, Anton; Stahl, Konrad; … - 2025

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Sherlocking : the effects of platform-owner entry on the competitive behavior of third-party firms

Leyden, Benjamin T. - 2026

I study how third-party firms respond when a platform owner enters its own marketplace, analyzing Apple's entries into App Store submarkets from 2016-2021. Using text embeddings to define markets and a staggered difference-in-differences design, I find that Apple's entry deters new competitors...

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Public vs. private payment platforms : market impacts and optimal policy

Liu, Youming; Rivadeneyra, Francisco; Reshidi, Edona - 2026 - Last updated: March 10, 2026

We study competition between a welfare-maximizing public platform and a profit-maximizing private platform in a two-sided payment market. We characterize the public platform's optimal pricing and show that it balances the benefits of increased competition against the welfare costs of network...

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Taste-based Investing, Government Policies and Competition in Financial Intermediation

Capelle, Damien - 2026

This paper develops a theory of how investors’ tastes are transmitted to aggregate investment through the market structure of financial intermediation. Whether tastes affect equilibrium capital allocation depends on where they originate—from households or from intermediaries—and on the...

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Fintech Competition and Banks’ Shrinking Margins in Brazil

Xu, Rui - 2026

The rise of fintech lenders has intensified competition in the banking industry. This study utilizes Brazilian bank-level data to examine the causal impact of increased competition on commercial banks’ lending rates and profitability. Employing a bank-specific Bartik exposure, constructed from...

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All-pay auctions with different forfeits

Kang, Benjamin; Unwin, James - 2026

In an auction, each party bids a certain amount, and the one who bids the highest is the winner. Interestingly, auctions can also be used as models for other real-world systems. In an all-pay auction all parties must pay a forfeit for bidding. In the most commonly studied all-pay auction,...

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The WIFO radar of competitiveness for the Austrian economy 2025 focus topic : price trends in tourism as a competitive factor

Peneder, Michael; Bittschi, Benjamin; Burton, Anna; … - 2026

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Common ownership and strategic manager compensation in R&D races and contests

Stadler, Manfred; Stickel, Lukas - 2026

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Competitiveness in the age of geopolitics : what agenda does the EU really need?

Raza, Werner; Maukner, Julian - 2026

Competitiveness has returned to the fore of European economic policymaking with a vengeance. In this paper, we scrutinize the recent debate on the need for promoting European competitiveness, as prominently diagnosed by the Draghi Report. By disaggregating the overall academic and...

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Competitiveness in the age of geopolitics : what agenda does the EU really need?

Raza, Werner; Maukner, Julian - 2026

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What is the "right" geographic market definition?

Genakos, Christos; Kampouris, Themistoklis - 2026

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What is the "right" geographic market definition?

Genakos, Christos; Kampouris, Themistoklis - 2026

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What is the "right" geographic market definition?

Genakos, Christos; Kampouris, Themistoklis - 2026

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Cross-platform entry effects of commission rates : evidence from mobile applications in China

Hou, Jiayi; Teng, Xuan; Wang, Xuan - 2026

This paper studies how commission rates affect app entry across platforms. We examine an increase in Android game commission rate from 30% to 50% in China in 2014 and its impact on Android and iOS app stores, separately, in a difference-in-differences framework. We find a direct negative entry...

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Is competition inherently sleazy? : why the market failures approach says yes and Kantian ethics says no

Hughes, Robert C. - 2026

Joseph Heath presents his market failures approach to business ethics as a happy medium between cynicism and the idealism of traditional moral theories such as Kantian ethics, which Heath believes to be incompatible with important forms of competition. The market failures approach defends some...

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Entgeltsicherung durch Tarifzwang ist der falsche Weg : Stellungnahme zum Entwurf eines NRW-Tarifentgeltsicherungsgesetzes

Lesch, Hagen; Bach, Helena - 2026 - Stand: Januar 2026

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Perfect competition and increasing returns a partial equilibrium analysis

Dehez, Pierre; Drèze, Jacques H. - 2026

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The dynamic market for short-cycle higher education programs

Carranza, Juan Esteban; Ferreira, María M.; Gazmuri, Ana - 2026

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Carbon regulation and competition in the European airline industry

Chen, Ertian; Chen, Lichao; Nesheim, Lars - 2026

The European Union Emissions Trading System is set to substantially increase the effective carbon price faced by airlines. To quantify the impact of this carbon regulation on the European airline industry, we estimate a two-stage model of airline competition with endogenous route entry, flight...

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Economic effects of digitalization and IT technologies on the efficiency and competitiveness of the energy sector

Al-Ababneh, Hassan Ali; Alomari, Khaled Mohammad; … - 2026

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Market size disparity moderates competitive balance interventions in US sports leagues

Davis, Kyle J.; Ransom, Tyler; Black, Christopher; … - 2026

This study examines the extent to which market size disparity across franchises - measured as the coefficient of variation of MSA populations - moderates the effectiveness of competitive balance interventions (CBIs) in Major League Baseball (MLB), the National Football League (NFL), the National...

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Exstrategic management accounting and competitiveness affecting sustainable performance : the moderating role of organizational learning capability and competitive culture

Wichitsathian, Sareeya; Ekkaphol, Sumalee - 2026

This research aimed to: (a) analyze the influence of strategic management accounting information on business strategy, competitiveness, and sustainable performance; (b) investigate the role of mediating variables on business strategy and competitiveness, and (c) study the role of moderating...

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Network connectivity and R&D competition in a hotelling model : market coverage, consumer expectations, and asymmetric firms

Toshimitsu, Tsuyoshi - 2026

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Welfare effect of network compatibility promotion under strategic R&D competition : the role of consumer expectations in a hotelling model

Toshimitsu, Tsuyoshi - 2026

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Returns to scale and strategic regimes in innovation Races

Müller, Julia; Upmann, Thorsten - 2026

This paper develops a dynamic model in which the productivity of joint research governs strategic investment timing in innovation races. Departing from the standard assumption that discovery rates scale proportionally with the number of active firms, we allow research to exhibit decreasing or...

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Multinational corporations and labour market competition in host countries : evidence from South Africa

Nesongano, Talent - 2026

This paper investigates how competition for skilled labour from foreign multinational corporations (MNCs) affects the alignment of wages and labour productivity in domestic firms. Using linked employer- employee records, worker data, and firm-level customs declarations from South Africa,...

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Does competitive pressures affect the Indian SMEs industry 4.O adoption : using quantile regression analysis

Kanoujiya, Jagjeevan; Agarwal, Bhakti; Rastogi, Shailesh; … - 2026

this paper explored the impact of market competition on the industry 4. O (I4.O) technology adoption in Indian small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). The research seeks to explore the competitive pressure between SMEs firms always influence digital changes with different technological...

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Market structure and technology adoption in renewable energy

Doshi, Gaurav; Johnston, Sarah - 2026

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Paid to play : football club owner ambitions on promotion to the English premier league and impact on the league

Evans, Richard - 2026

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Regulating lobbying activities to protect competition : New evidence from the OECD PMR indicators

Vitale, Cristiana - 2026

Competitive product markets are crucial for growth. This requires a regulatory environment that effectively manages interactions between policymakers and stakeholders, particularly lobbyists, to ensure special interests do not unduly influence the design of new policies and regulations. Yet, the...

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A two-sided model of television competition with advertising pricing and endogenous reinvestment

Bardey, David - 2026

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A two-sided model of television competition with advertising pricing and endogenous reinvestment

Bardey, David - 2026

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Why is EV charging so unreliable? : the effects of competition on supplementary service quality

Liu, Yifan; Toffel, Michael W.; Walsh, John P.; … - 2026

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Capturing value from investment opportunities under product-market competition : when do internal capital markets matter?

Costa, Afonso Almeida; Gimeno, Javier - 2026

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The consumer welfare standard and the protect competition standard : a comparison and assessment

Glick, Mark A.; Lozada, Gabriel A.; Bush, Darren - 2026

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Industrial policy in the competition between an existing hegemon and a rising superpower : the case of the US and China

Zhang, Kevin H. - 2026

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Compete or retreat? : evidence from aid competition between China and Western donor countries

Nishitateno, Shuhei; Todō, Yasuyuki - 2026

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Compete or retreat? : evidence from aid competition between China and western donor countries

Nishitateno, Shuhei; Todō, Yasuyuki - 2026

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Competition, contracts and auctions for renewable electricity support : competition for the market but not yet in the market

Green, Richard; Newbery, David M. G. - 2026

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Banking competition and access to cash and retail banking services in rural Canada

Xiao, Hong Yu; Petrunia, Robert; Lucky, Sarah - 2026 - Last updated: June 11, 2026

We study the accessibility and competitive structure of Canadian retail banking and cash services in rural, localized markets using the Bresnahan-Reiss entry threshold framework. We estimate population thresholds required to support a given number of establishments in two segments of the...

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Labor market competition and inequality

Garcia-Louzao, Jose; Ruggieri, Alessandro - 2026

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Emergent competitiveness in artisanal furniture : a case study from Misantla, Mexico

García-Santamaría, Luis Enrique; … - 2026

Background: This study examines the competitive dynamics of the artisanal wooden furniture industry in Misantla, Veracruz, Mexico, a predominantly informal productive system characterized by family-managed production units and strong territorial embeddedness. Methods: A mixed-methods research...

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Class peers as competitors and educators : the consequences of rank-based academic rewards

Rosenzweig, Mark R.; Xu, Bing - 2026

This paper examines the theoretical and empirical consequences of rank-based reward systems in schools in which students' performance and effort are evaluated relative to their peers. In such environments, classmates act simultaneously as competitors - due to rank-determined rewards - and as...

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Does banking consolidation harm households?

Brunetti, Celso; Harris, Jeffery H.; Spyridopoulos, Ioannis - 2026

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Investment in demand and dynamic competition for customers

Hubmer, Joachim; Nord, Lukas - 2026

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Gendered performance in competitions : learning from a Korean quiz show

Booth, Alison L.; Lee, Jungmin - 2026

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Product market competition, labor mobility, and firm-sponsored training : new implications of market power

Ghosh, Arghya; Morita, Hodaka; Sato, Susumu - 2026

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Procrastination and competition failure

Andre, Peter; Heidhues, Paul; Kőszegi, Botond; … - 2026

We develop a model of price competition with procrastinating consumers in which market discipline is supposed to arise from both the initial selection of providers and the possibility of switching providers. As in other theories, consumers may forego large gains by sticking with their initially...

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Procrastination and competition failure

Andre, Peter; Heidhues, Paul; Kőszegi, Botond; … - 2026

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Deregulation : from theory to practice

Sturzenegger, Federico - 2026

This paper links microeconomic theory with the political economy of regulation. We explain why modern economies tend to become persistently over-regulated and we outline a practical strategy for deregulation. We argue that regulations are not the works of a benevolent central planner but rather...

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Competitive human capital and football club's performance : case of the English Premier League

Mysaka, Hanna; Derun, Ivan; Holovanenko, Mykola - 2026

The objective of this study is to examine the interrelation between competitive human capital (CHC) and a professional football club's (PFC) sports performance (SP) and business performance (BP). The research methodology is based on a seemingly unrelated regressions (SUR) model with panel data....

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