Competition vs. Profitability

Profitability Measures and Competition Law

Economists and antitrust authorities recognize that firms with market power often raise prices above competitive levels and thus earn monopolistic profits that exceed the competitive cost of capital. In both the U.S. and Europe, this recognition has led antitrust authorities (and courts) to consider profitability evidence when determining whether a firm has market power. In Europe, unlike the U...

Actual Competition, Potential Competition, and Bank Profitability in Rural Markets

The nature of the relationship between the structure of the market in which banks operate-the number and size distribution of actual competitors in a market-and their performance has been examined in a considerable number of empirical studies over the past 20 years.' Industrial organization economists have investigated the structure; performance relationship for a wide variet). of intraand inte...

Quality-Based Competition, Profitability, and Variable Costs

Why the Dynamics of Competition Matter for Category Profitability

Category Management (CM) has becomes a widespread trade practice in recent years. A category manager's decision problem is complex and multi-faceted owing to demand dependencies across products and across time. Extant research on CM has typically focused on one or the other of these dependencies, but seldom both. The authors address this gap in the extant empirical literature on CM by presentin...

Price Competition, Innovation and Profitability: Theory and UK Evidence

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 counts and profitability over 1952-1977. The econometric results suggest that the introduction of restrictive practices legislation in the UK had no signi...