a major risk for potential investors. High entry barriers lead to weak competition. Reducing the role of the state in … the economy and WTO membership should be viewed as opportunities to strengthen competition, and hence provide incentives …

This paper reviews recent studies on the links between competition, innovation and productivity growth in the long run …. From a long-run perspective, one can see that gains from competition-enhancing regulatory reform are likely to exceed … taking a dynamic perspective on competition and efficiency, one can also understand better the new modes of competition …

privatization of infrastructure in many developing countries has spawned new critiques of privatization. How do theory and empirical …Disappointment with insider trading in Russia, with voucher privatization in the Czech Republic, and with the … evidence answer the much-debated questions, which is more important to performance, competition or private ownership? Are state …

-country variance. We find evidence that reforms promoting private governance and competition (where these are viable) tend to boost …