competition across 1,800 municipalities and matches it with establishment census panel data to estimate the impact on … result of legal reforms that strengthened the mandate of Peru's competition authority. Legislative changes in 2013 …/14 empowered the competition authority to enforce the elimination of illegal, sector-specific subnational regulatory barriers to …

. However, there has been little evidence on what drives market power and the impact of the degree of competition in South …-level determinants of the estimated markups and assesses the link between competition and firm-level outcomes, including productivity … South Africa, even after controlling for efficiency. Moreover, lower product market competition has a significant, negative …

-Saharan African countries. This paper simulates the impact of the introduction of competition on the telecom sector's prices and its …