Malaysia recovered from the Asian financial crisis swiftly after the imposition of capital controls in September 1998 … play a significant role in facilitating Malaysia’s rebound. However, the financial crisis was deepening in Malaysia in the …

competition, Bertrand and Cournot oligopoly) international competition forces the national government to subsidize innovation. The …

downstream sectors, which often face tough international competition. Such firms lose market share, thus worsening the economic … performance of the country. We try to document the importance of this link between competition problems and growth by analysing … from competition problems perform worse in terms of net exports, export growth and output growth. …

We show how introductory offers emerge endogenously under conditions of competition in markets with switching costs. In …

losses is 1/n². The results extend to demand schedule competition and a range of applications in product and …

a devaluation ensures are used to improve non-price competitiveness, longer-run effects are possible. The paper looks at …

competitiveness losses), but makes the public aware that the policy-maker is faced with such penalty, and thus helps to overcome the … competitiveness that the country is not allowed to recover at realignments. …

To stay on top of global competition, firms and governments often need to acquire innovative goods and services … often set the incentives for the development of innovations economy-wide. In this paper, guided by recent micro- and macro … the degree of competition between suppliers, as well as other more practical indirect ways to stimulate innovation. We …

In this paper I estimate and test a model of the effects of competitiveness, oil prices and government expenditure on … that competitiveness and government expenditure have been equally important independent sources of output fluctuations …