Understanding the degree and evolution of competition across industries is an important step towards understanding the … impact of economic reform and competition on economic growth in Vietnam during the economic transition. In this paper, we … investigate evolution of competition in Vietnam during the economic transition using the Price-Cost Margin (PCM) or Mark-up that …

instead of harming it. Barriers that promote new competition or are applied in order to protect consumer welfare are socially … useful, while barriers that restrict competition and limit new competitor entry, in cases other than natural monopolies, are …

Russia from the point of view of interrelationships between enterprise behavior and macroeconomic performance. …

market competition. In markets with effective competition, horizontal multiple directorships turn out to be an efficient … firms have no significant influence on financial performance, irrespective of the level of competition intensity …

It is usually believed that higher competition, implying more active firms, benefits consumers. We show that this may … not be the case in an industry with asymmetric cost firms. A rise in the number of more cost inefficient firms makes the …

governance as well as economic and political competition, whereas the role of collaboration mechanisms is growing. This process …

-robust estimation, we report several findings. First, the relationship between industry-level competition and input as well as output …The debate on competition and innovation has produced a wide range of theoretical and empirical findings. Recently …, corporate governance quality has emerged as an additional factor that may complement or substitute for competition’s effect on …

approach ignores both the competition between oil companies, and the large geographical differences. The paper concludes by …