Mexico experienced a tremendous expansion of its export-processing maquila sector during the 1990s. At the same time, a … market outcomes in Mexico. We develop a heterogeneous firm model with imperfect labor markets that captures salient features …

impact of competition on bank orientation - i.e., the choice of relationship based versus transactional banking - and bank … industry specialization. We empirically investigate the impact of interbank competition on bank branch orientation and …. We find that bank branches facing stiff local competition engage relatively more in relationship-based lending but …

This paper studies the impact of hospital competition on waiting times. We use a Salop-type model, with hospitals that … from the closest hospital (monopoly segment). Compared with a benchmark case of monopoly, we find that hospital competition … hospital competition, the effect of increased competition depends on the parameter of measurement: Lower travelling costs …

outside option to public and other schools, this paper considers the effect of catholic competition on non-catholic school … performance in pre-university education. Employing data from central exit exams, a positive link between competition intensity and … academic achievement is found. In addition to raising achievement, higher levels of competition are not associated with a …

factors they perceive as drivers and obstacles to financing SMEs. We also study to what degree competition and the … banks in both countries. In particular, banks have begun to target SMEs due to the significant competition in the corporate …