, and international trade also raise firm efficiency in the industry. Results strongly confirm that market competition …The Slovenian transition represents a slow but steady liberalization of constraints on competition. Using a unique … longitudinal data set on all manufacturing firms in Slovenia over the period 1994-2001, this study analyzes how firm efficiency …

principals. We first show theoretically how these different degrees of competition affect outcomes and efficiency. Informational …We devise an experiment to explore the effect of different degrees of competition on optimal contracts in a hidden … inefficiencies remain. In contrast, when agents compete to be hired, efficiency improves dramatically, and it increases in the …

, and international trade also raise firm efficiency in the industry. Results strongly confirm that market competition …The Slovenian transition represents a slow but steady liberalization of constraints on competition. Using a unique … longitudinal data set on all manufacturing firms in Slovenia over the period 1994-2001, this study analyzes how firm efficiency …

globalization through the impact of increased competition and foreign direct investment on domestic firms' efforts to raise their … into account firm heterogeneity. We find support for the prediction that competition has a negative effect on innovation … are important channels for domestic firm innovation. We do not find support for the inverted U effect of competition on …

have to compete for jobs. Our aim is to investigate how this competition affects the investment decisions of firms. Our … that never yield an efficient allocation. Moreover, our results extend the efficiency of auction mechanisms to an …

globalization through the impact of increased competition and foreign direct investment on domestic firms’ efforts to raise their … into account firm heterogeneity. We find support for the prediction that competition has a negative effect on innovation … are important channels for domestic firm innovation. We do not find support for the inverted U effect of competition on …

as competition intensifies between workers, the incentive for workers to cooperate with each other diminishes. We report … different amounts of competition on-the-job and that these differences explain differences in cooperation in our experiment … staff who face little competition on the job. Further, after accounting for the possibility of personality-based selection …

Choice and competition in education have found growing support from both policy makers and academics in the recent past … for choice and competition is clear, in existing work there is rarely an attempt to distinguish between the two concepts … academic outcomes than those whose choice is more limited; and whether Primary schools facing more competition perform better …