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 …

the implications for competition and economic growth. The results show that the (sales-weighted) average markup in Romania … environment that is less conducive to competition. A decomposition exercise shows that the increase in aggregate markups has been … ownership. Further, the paper shows that additional productivity dividends are associated with increased competition in Romania …