Competition in domestic markets is critical to ensure increased international competitiveness. Firms facing more …. Competition policies are defined as the set of policies and a law ensuring that competition in the marketplace is not restricted … in a way that reduces economic welfare. This report reviews the current status of competition policy in Turkey, focusing …

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risk management. In 2011 the world witnessed record losses from disasters caused by natural hazards with estimated costs of …

"The relationships among competition in the financial sector, access of firms to external financing, and associated … economic growth are ambiguous in theory. Moreover, measuring competition in the financial sector can be complex. In this paper … Claessens and Laeven first estimate for 16 countries a measure of banking system competition based on industrial organization …

not feel pressure (Carlin and others 2001; World Bank 2004). However, competition also appears to affect innovation in …, Development Research Group--is part of a larger effort in the group to understand the determinants of competition"--World Bank web … other ways. In particular, firms in these countries that face greater price competition appear to be less likely to innovate …