within less than five years. We examine whether the privatization authority followed its mandate to privatize competitive … investors, and are more likely to remain in business even 20 years after leaving public ownership. The privatization agency …

contracts literature hold up to recent empirical evidence. Guided by theory, we arrange services according to the type and …

within less than five years. We examine whether the privatization authority followed its mandate to privatize competitive … investors, and are more likely to remain in business even 20 years after leaving public ownership. The privatization agency …

We study the gains from trade in a model with oligopolistic competition, heterogeneous firms and innovation, and …-relevant feature of market power above and beyond markup dispersion. Trade liberalisation increases foreign competition and reduces the …

theoretical contribution is combining a job matching model with monopolistic competition in the goods market and individual wage … bargaining. Product market competition affects unemployment by two channels: the output expansion effect and a countervailing … effect due to a hiring externality. Competition is then linked to barriers to entry. We calibrate the model to US data and …

evidence showing that (a) FDI inflows reduce the likelihood of privatization reversals, (b) worsened terms of trade increase …

market economies. The primary focus of the study is on competition and market structure, finance and the structure of lending … interpretation of the evidence on competition is that there is an initial move by firms into niches to exploit local market power …