evidence is also found that fiercer competition encourages the development of more efficient small retail trade shops. These …

Germany (or, alternatively, Portugal) and the rest of the euro area. Our main results are as follows. First, a unilateral …

over the period 1911-1951 and of their links with competition policy. By relying on a newly compiled dataset and on fresh … industries. Finally, we find that reductions in the level of competition, induced by specific policies, were associated with …

Insufficient competition remains a major obstacle to growth in Italy. The main culprits include the institutional … rights to provide services and restrictive regulation hindered competition in professional services. Growing awareness of the … importance of competition policies to foster growth has given new impetus to the implementation of a wide programme of …

We assess the short- and medium-term macroeconomic effects of competition-friendly reforms in the service sector when …

This paper evaluates the macroeconomic effects of simultaneously implementing fiscal consolidation and competition … joint implementation of reforms has additional expansionary effects on long-run economic activity. Increasing competition in …

affect their evaluation of the service, and (or) the likelihood the service can be provided successfully. These different …

intermediate or high. Favoritism, consisting in biasing the competition for influence in favour of one expert, can further increase …This paper investigates the incentives of experts competing to influence decision making. Competition for influence is …

We investigate the effects of competition in the banking sector on the creation of firms in the non-financial sector … find evidence of a bellshaped relationship between bank competition and firm creation. In addition, consistent with models … finding that competition may reduce the availability of credit to informationally opaque firms, we find that bank competition …