• Obfuscation and Rational Inattention in Digitalized Markets 

      Janssen, Aljoscha; Kasinger, Johannes (2021-02-05)
      This paper studies the behavior of competing firms in a duopoly with rational inattentive consumers. Firms play a sequential game in which they decide to obfuscate their individual prices before competing on price. ...
    • The Influence of Leveraged Buyouts on Target Firms’ Competitors 

      Grupp, Marcel; Rauch, Christian; Umber, Marc P.; Walz, Uwe (2015-04-01)
      This paper analyzes the influence Leveraged Buyouts (LBOs) have on the operating performance of the LBO target companies’ direct competitors. A unique and hand-collected data set on LBOs in the United States in the period ...