early stages or to protect mature firms from competition to appropriate these externalities. However, non …

This paper investigates competition between health insurance companies under different financing regulations. We … consider two alternatives advanced in recent German health care reform discussions: competition by contribution rates (health … contributions) and by fees (health premia). We find that contribution rate competition yields lower company profits and higher …

experiences in other areas suggesting that competition could provide large benefits to hitherto regulated utilities in local …

more intense competition may have the negative side-effect of eroding tax revenues by increasing tax evasion. This will be … weakly concave or convex and inelastic. The desirable result of more competition, less evasion and higher tax revenues will …

Services form an increasing proportion of the inputs used in manufacturing. We explore empirically whether competition …-data for services, we calculate proxies for competition in services, and then use Input-Output matrices to link services to … manufacturing sectors. we find that there is a positive and significant relation between the extent of competition and firms …