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 …