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 How much has the state actually withdrawn … from agricultural markets?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 …

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

governance as well as economic and political competition, whereas the role of collaboration mechanisms is growing. This process …

informational problems. We show that, as a consequence of this trade-off, more intense competition in unregulated segments of the … can lead to a softer merger policy when competition is weaker. …

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 …