The policy-making and distributive effects of lobbying is a disturbing and highly debated issue in many developing … 1990’s has been placed under great scrutiny. In this paper, an overview of the positive theory of regulation along with the … theory of collective action is provided in order to highlight the main discussions covered in existing literature. This paper …

from third countries. What is considered to be price dumping when imported is considered normal competition for a product … manufactured in the EU. This is due to the fact that spatial price differentiation within the EU is covered by competition rules …, and that competition rules have higher requirements for market share and price undercutting than the anti …

Although American business leaders do not like protectionism, more and more of them are concluding that too many … competition. New technologies have great potential payoffs, but they require more sophisticated forms of social organization …

optimal organization of lobbying favors competition between groups only when their preferences are not too congruent with …We use a mechanism design approach to study the organization of interest groups in an informational model of lobbying …

over marginal theory of imperfect competition. The controversy was closed prematurely; various contributions published … analysis of competition; it is too often neglected in favour of the sole competition on margins. …

degree of competition using the H-statistic by Panzar and Rosse (1987). The estimated H-statistics for the whole sample … periods are positive ranging from 0.38 to 0.62 and the Wald test for the market structure of monopoly or perfect competition … is rejected implying that the Islamic banks in Malaysia earned their revenue in the condition of monopolistic competition. …

well as endogenous intensity of competition: firms in high risk industries reduce their riskiness by competing less than …

This paper presents a model of labour supply determination under job competition. In the presence of a positive rate of … offered wage, maximises utility. There is a unique strictly positive degree of job competition that is consistent with the … optimal allocation. If labour supply is upward-sloping, increasing job competition raises the equilibrium level of activity …