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 …

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 …

profitability using new data on Russia that allow us to overcome the endogeneity problem of market structure and expand on the … are persistent in the long run. And we find for Russia that capital intensity is negatively related to profitability …

transition countries. The survey contains details on 3,105 recent bank loans. At the firm level, our findings suggest that firms …. However, foreign bank presence, weak corporate governance and the absence of capital controls encourage foreign currency …

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 …

WTO members are starting to consider whether and how to develop multilateral disciplines on competition policies. These … competition existing on member country markets. We argue in this paper that collection of simple measures of industrial structure … and import penetration would be useful in characterizing the 'conditions of competition' that prevail in an economy …

difficulties. Former state-owned enterprises are reorienting sales to Western markets under the pressure of competition from a new …

advertising is an important aspect of bank competition. …' advertising varies with the deposit market structure and whether bank profitability is influenced by advertising. My analysis … find that advertising has a positive and economically significant impact on bank profitability. These results suggest that …