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 …

advantage in the production of CFG goods and are net exporters of such products. The competitiveness measures also show that … China, Hong Kong and Japan, and Asia Pacific region are major exporter of CFG during 2002-2008. Competitiveness of India …, Malaysia and Macao show good in 2008 for SPVS. Japan, Philippines, China, Hong Kong and South Korea have a comparative …

downstream competitiveness. It is shown that One-Way and Two-Way trade indices capture different aspects of trade competitiveness …

is rejected implying that the Islamic banks in Malaysia earned their revenue in the condition of monopolistic competition. …This paper investigates the market structure of Islamic banking industry in Malaysia during 2001-2005 and evaluates the … degree of competition using the H-statistic by Panzar and Rosse (1987). The estimated H-statistics for the whole sample …

This study assesses the macroeconomic impacts of increasing competition in the non-tradable goods and labour markets in … Portugal. We lean on evidence that the maintenance of low competition in these markets may have contributed to the recent poor … number of nominal and real rigidities. We conclude that measures aimed at increasing competition in the Portuguese non …

In this chapter our aim is to examine the effects on cohesion of European Union competition and conlpetitiveness … policies. More specifically, attention will be paid to three sets of measures: the rules of competition policy (Articles 85 …-94 of the EU Treaty); industrial competitiveness policies (Articles 3 and 130); and enterprise policies (Article 130). What …

requirement of maintaining a high economic performance of their economies by convergence and competitiveness strategies, so that …

of competitiveness, presents a Prisoners’ Dilemma model of firm and government strategies that incorporates competition … additional costs on business and affect economic competitiveness. This paper discusses the links between environmental protection … (and government policies and regulations more generally) and competitiveness. It provides a brief discussion on the nature …

Article about alternative interpretations of the concept of "competition" as the adaptive behavior of market … participants. The author substantiates the thesis of the identity of market adaptation and market competition rather than rivalry. …

contribution is to describe and define the terms „competitive advantage“ and „competition“ on theoretical grounds since opinions …