Little is known about how competition affects child care centers’ quality. This paper examines the impact of … competition on the quality of Dutch child care centers. The results show that high density of child care centers in an area … or births in the area are used to instrument the density of child care centers. The effects of competition are exclusive …

supervisory data set, this paper investigates competition and efficiency in the Dutch life insurance market by estimating unused … economies decrease but substantial differences between small and large insurers remain. A direct measure of competition confirms … that competitive pressures are at a lower level than in other markets. We do not observe any impact of increased …

range from 5% to 10%. To measure competition directly, we apply a novel approach that estimates the impact of marginal costs … as indicator of inefficiency on either market shares or profits. Over time, competition in health insurance has increased … fall in the average level of competitive pressure. After the reform, competition continued to improve. In the non …

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 …

approach ignores both the competition between oil companies, and the large geographical differences. The paper concludes by …

. Empirical evidence suggests that emerging markets, as well as European countries such as Italy, Sweden or Germany have ….Corporate financing patterns in emerging markets in the 1990s were broadly similar to those observed in the 1980s. Unlike their … held beliefs, product market competition in emerging countries is no less intense than in advanced economies. …