California disaster. Part of the explanation for these difficulties stems from past successful liberalization and deregulation … experiences in other areas suggesting that competition could provide large benefits to hitherto regulated utilities in local …

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 …

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

Open borders imply systems competition. This paper studies the implications of systems competition for the national co … profi t s. Instead of such an equilibrium, a deregulation race is likely to emerge in which all but the last country repeal … their antitrust laws. The deregulation race results in a chain of Stackelberg leadership positions taken over by national …

seems to have increased post-deregulation and the competition resulting from diversity in bank types was important to prompt … banks have used size as a barrier to entry to the new entrants in the post-deregulation period. Furthermore, bank efficiency …This study considers the efficiency of banking in Australia during the post-deregulation period 1988-2001. Since 1986 …

deregulation. …

impact of competition on bank orientation - i.e., the choice of relationship based versus transactional banking - and bank … industry specialization. We empirically investigate the impact of interbank competition on bank branch orientation and …. We find that bank branches facing stiff local competition engage relatively more in relationship-based lending but …

the rest must resort to standard bank finance. We consider a number of policies to promote entrepreneurship and venture …