This paper contributes to the literature on competition and corruption, by drawing on records from Calciopoli, a …

, political selection, and government efficiency. We address these issues in the Italian context by constructing a new dataset … improvement in the efficiency of the municipal government (as measured by the speed of revenue collection). The effect of … newspapers on government efficiency is larger when mayors are not term-limited and thus face reelection incentives. Our evidence …

Is electoral competition good for political selection? To address this issue, we introduce a theoretical model in which …

We study the attitudes of junior and senior employees towards strategic uncertainty and competition, by means of a …

. We sketch a "superstar firm" model where industries are increasingly characterized by "winner take most" competition …

perfect competition, the global fields of the dysfunctional market system have mushroomed in what we call Warrant Economics … distorted competition and accelerated economic concentration. We view the income distribution effect, which favours the top 1 …%, and the business concentration effect, which gravitates competition towards oligopolistic/monopolistic industries, as the …