government regulation may reduce transaction costs, intensifying the competition associated with a given market structure, and we … use data from the recently liberalized and regionally diverse country of Russia to test the hypothesis. Estimating …

substitutability of market competition and private ownership in increasing firm efficiency. We analyse a simple Cournot model that … competition, and thus that competition only among state-owned enterprises may be ineffectual in stimulating them to increase …

impact of several dimensions of market competition and other factors on enterprise efficiency. We analyse 1992-1998 panel …, intensity, time path, and survival effects of competitive pressures. We find large, positive effects on TFP from competition in …

In this paper we examine the causal impact of competition on management quality. We analyze the hospital sector where … geographic proximity is a key determinant of competition, and English public hospitals where political competition can be used to … management quality - measured using a new survey tool - is strongly correlated with financial and clinical outcomes such as …

intervention affects the supply of productive inputs by management. We show that both the advantage and the disadvantage of public … a firm’s shareholder base. This exposes management to uncertainty regarding the identity of future shareholders and … their extent of intervention in management decisions and in turn curtails managerial incentives. By contrast, because of its …