principals. We first show theoretically how these different degrees of competition affect outcomes and efficiency. Informational …We devise an experiment to explore the effect of different degrees of competition on optimal contracts in a hidden … inefficiencies remain. In contrast, when agents compete to be hired, efficiency improves dramatically, and it increases in the …

, and international trade also raise firm efficiency in the industry. Results strongly confirm that market competition …The Slovenian transition represents a slow but steady liberalization of constraints on competition. Using a unique … longitudinal data set on all manufacturing firms in Slovenia over the period 1994-2001, this study analyzes how firm efficiency …

import as well as the export activity of the firm. These two innovations allow us to avoid large biases that characterized … recent theories that aim at explaining participation both in export and import markets and at including non …

and existing hypotheses about the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the efficiency of domestic firms in the …

. We conclude that the household efficiency does yield empirically falsifiable restrictions despite being scarcely rejected …

there is a tradeoff as to efficiency and inequality with respect to services that are contracted to private companies in a …

, there is some reason hope that private provision might promote microeconomic efficiency and services which are more … choice and innovation. Second, however, efficiency gains have often been limited. This is due to a number of inter … competition. (d) The fiscal incentives necessary to stimulate private provision are high, and have welfare costs of their own …

We analyze the efficiency and productivity growth of a representative sample of Portuguese hospitals from 1997 to 2004 … productivity indicator that is decomposed into the usual constituents of productivity growth: technological change and efficiency …