competition in Russia during 2002-2008. The authors examine indicators of concentration and contestability, and compute non …-structural measures of competition. They compare competition in Russia to that in Brazil, China, and India, and contrast competition …

context, since the poor are typically the most affected by lack of competition, new analytical tools to assess the … knowledge gap, this paper introduces a simple simulation method, the Welfare and Competition tool (WELCOM), to estimate with … results show that increasing competition from four to 12 firms in the mobile telecommunications industry and reducing the …

Does democratization promote economic competition? This paper documents that the disruption of political connections … measures of competition in the post-Suharto era relative to industries in which Suharto firms had not been important players …

of increasing competition from China, this effect is different for firms more strongly affected by competition where … IT and other changes spurred by competition, taking advantage of the exogenous shock generated by Chinese competition …. The results indicate that IT use has higher effects over productivity in the case of firms facing higher competition from …

, innovation is the key quality and differentiation factor (as distinguished from price-related, regulatory, and competition … direct investment; and quality, regulatory, and competition issues affecting the investment climate …