not feel pressure (Carlin and others 2001; World Bank 2004). However, competition also appears to affect innovation in … of competition and, consequently, assesses their net impact on innovation. He finds that reducing tariffs and enacting … and enforcing competition laws modestly increases both the pressure that firms feel regarding innovation and the level of …

competition and innovation, or that they are more sensitive to foreign presence. "--World Bank web site … find that competition has a negative effect on innovation, especially for firms further from the efficiency frontier, and … we do not find support for an inverted U effect of competition on innovation. The authors show that the supply chain of …

bank performance. They argue that it is important to include indicators of all the relevant governance effects in the same … likely due to placing nonperforming loans into residual entities, leaving "good" privatized banks."--World Bank web site …

bank governance review has three objectives to: 1) conduct a review of the Slovenian bank governance framework, 2) make … in other countries in 1997-1998, and has improved its stability. However some shortcomings in bank governance remain. The …