competition policy is likely to face more challenges as large companies are becoming more common in more and more industries …

This paper studies the role played by politics in shaping the Italian railway network, and its impact on long … territory. Finally, we explore the long-run effects of the network expansion on economic development. Employing population and …

In this paper, we develop a network perspective on the welfare gains from trade in today’s internationally fragmented …

The recent literature on firm-to-firm trade has documented salient empirical regularities of the buyer-seller network …

, and different network layers. At the individual level, homophilous tendencies are persistent across time and network … those characteristics. We also document the nuanced impact of network connections on changes in Grade Point Average …

This paper studies the impact of hospital competition on waiting times. We use a Salop-type model, with hospitals that … from the closest hospital (monopoly segment). Compared with a benchmark case of monopoly, we find that hospital competition … hospital competition, the effect of increased competition depends on the parameter of measurement: Lower travelling costs …

that supranational competition can have very different consequences on the rent seeking behaviour of firms, depending on …

outside option to public and other schools, this paper considers the effect of catholic competition on non-catholic school … performance in pre-university education. Employing data from central exit exams, a positive link between competition intensity and … academic achievement is found. In addition to raising achievement, higher levels of competition are not associated with a …

We investigate the effect of competition on quality in regulated markets (e.g., health care, higher education, public … to the steady state. While fiercer competition (lower transportation costs or less sluggish demand) leads to higher … quality in both solutions, the quality response to increased competition is weaker when players use feedback strategies. …

Services form an increasing proportion of the inputs used in manufacturing. We explore empirically whether competition …-data for services, we calculate proxies for competition in services, and then use Input-Output matrices to link services to … manufacturing sectors. we find that there is a positive and significant relation between the extent of competition and firms …