to improve entrepreneurs' internet/digital skills and firms' digital competencies, whilst also boosting empowerment and …

We evaluate the effect of a pro-competition reform gradually introduced in France over the 2004-2008 period on hospital … and financial autonomy as well as their reimbursement systems and incentives for competition before the reform, but they … competition in terms of decrease in mortality after the reform. We estimate a duration model for mortality stratified at the …

To identify the determinants of cross-country disparities in personal computer and Internet penetration, we examine a … significant in most specifications for computer use. A similar pattern holds true for Internet use, except that telephone density … differentials. For computers, telephone density and regulatory quality are of second and third importance, while for the Internet …

Free school choice has often been argued to be a tide that lifts school quality through increased competition. This …

This paper offers an eclectic survey of the political economy of labor regulation in the United States at federal and … review, and interjurisdictional competition as well as the implications of union decline. Our analysis should help dispel any …

is sufficiently well informed about consumer and firm behavior. -- bounded rationality ; competition ; regulation …

gender divide in access to TV, smartphone, computer and internet among rural households. However, the analysis of daily time …