, inequality is highly responsive to the increase in product market competition triggered by domestic regulatory reform …

, inequality is highly responsive to the increase in product market competition triggered by domestic regulatory reform …

pure monopoly. We extend this model by examining cases of perfect competition and a vertically integrated domestic company … larger are the backward linkage effects. They reach their maximum under perfect competition in the intermediate goods market …

setting, we study the trade and welfare implications of labor market deregulation and compare these implications with the … consequences of product market deregulation. Thereby, we take into account that labor market reforms are subject to national policy … decisions and thus associated with unilateral intervention, while product market deregulation is determined at an international …

the findings can be related to an incumbency externality effect and to the theory of voter preferences for divided …

This paper investigates competition between health insurance companies under different financing regulations. We … consider two alternatives advanced in recent German health care reform discussions: competition by contribution rates (health … contributions) and by fees (health premia). We find that contribution rate competition yields lower company profits and higher …