effectiveness, and how the quintessential features of blockchain reshape industrial organization and the landscape of competition … competition, yet the irreducible distribution of information during consensus generation may encourage greater collusion. In …

In this paper we review issues relating to antitrust and competition in health care markets. The paper begins with a … ways that might affect the optimality of competition. The paper then focuses on the main areas in which antitrust has been …

Competition in many important industries centers on investment in intellectual property. Firms engage in dynamic …, Schumpeterian competition for the market, through sequential winner-take-all races to produce drastic innovations, rather than … through static price/output competition in the market. Sound antitrust economic analysis of such industries requires explicit …

Open borders imply systems competition. This paper studies the implications of systems competition for the national … competition rules. It is shown that an equilibrium where all countries retain their antitrust laws does not exist, since …

Over the last three decades, Mexico has aggressively reformed its economy, opening to foreign trade and investment … been lackluster, trailing that of many other developing nations. In this paper, I review arguments for why Mexico hasn …. These are factors internal to Mexico. One possible external factor is that the country has the bad luck of exporting goods …

This paper examines the effect of Wal-Mart's entry into Mexico on Mexican manufacturers of consumer goods. Guided by … Mexico), or use traditional retailers. Walmex provides access to a larger market, but it puts continuous pressure on its …

This paper examines how sales force impact competition and equilibrium prices in the context of a privatized pension … market. We use detailed administrative data on fund manager choices and worker characteristics at the inception of Mexico … foster competition in social safety net markets with large segments of inelastic consumers …

Mexican manufacturing industry we find that indicators for local competition are positively related to the technology imports …