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 …

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

in international data. More market orientation might be related to gender wage gaps via its effects on competition in …

effect of private-school competition on students' entrepreneurial intentions. We exploit Catholic-Church resistance to state …

. We use this historical pattern as a natural experiment to estimate the causal effect of contemporary private competition …

Competition Authority. These practices are widely spread across sectors and cartel members are typically among the top firms in …

, firms are price-makers and wage-setters. Our setting combines monopolistic and monopsonistic competition, thus encapsulating …

This paper assesses the impact of product market competition on job instability as proxied by the use of fixed … Strategies Survey, I show that job instability rises with competition. In particular, a one standard deviation increase in … competition in an economic sector decreases the probability that a fixed-term worker gets an open-ended contract within that …

can explain several puzzling findings in the economics of education, including the fact that competition can, but does not …