reforms to deregulate agricultural markets and reduce the role of state enterprises. How much has the state actually withdrawn … from agricultural markets? Have well-functioning private markets emerged? How successful were these reforms in boosting …, focusing on three major agricultural markets: fertilizer, food crops, and export crops. They examine the historical rationales …

have empowered Andean potato farmers by expanding their knowledge of markets, market agents, and business opportunities …

barrier to the growth of domestic and international commercial markets for food and feed. In recent years the aflatoxin …

The debate on competition and innovation has produced a wide range of theoretical and empirical findings. Recently …, corporate governance quality has emerged as an additional factor that may complement or substitute for competition’s effect on … innovation. We aim to contribute to the debate by investigating whether product-market competition and corporate governance …

between product market competition and the level of innovative activity in an industry. Recent empirical papers point to an … inverted-U shape relationship between competition and innovation. Our paper offers theoretical support to these results while … show that firms solve this trade-off precisely so as to generate the inverted-U shape relationship. When the competition in …

competition between U.S. and Japanese companies in electronics-related industries. The model is similar to that described by Piore …

in EU15 have improved and whether such improvement has been driven by higher levels of competition in EU15 economies. To … this end, we provide a descriptive account of the competition and innovation indicators from 1980-2008. Then, we discuss … the relationship between market structure (level of competition) and innovation; and estimate the impact of the former on …