Using information on almost 12.000 firms this article examines the impact of innovation on employment growth in innovating small and medium enterprises. In contrast to existing studies, which typically use the…
In the advent of postal market liberalization in several European countries this analysis provides an understanding in which dimensions entering firms will compete with the incumbent and how incumbents may act…
Google was involved in a series of deals, all of them related to the online advertising industry: two mergers with YouTube and DoubleClick and one arrangement with Yahoo!. Scholars in competition policy question…
The automobile industry is one of the most innovative sectors in the economy and has become also very competitive in spite of its oligopolistic market structure. Besides, the triad traditional automotive markets…
The European car market is characterized by extensive multimarket contact (i.e., the firms are present in many geographic and product markets), a high degree of interfirm linkages, and presence of several global…
Multimarket contact is perceived to be one of those factors, which can facilitate and sustain implicit collusion. This multimarket contact effect has got relatively little attention in the previous literature,…