indicators to study trends and conditions of the outlet level in retail prices for common commodities sold throughout Mexico. The …, the study concludes that Mexico is not one, well-integrated national market. The study tested whether changes in these … changes in competition and entry of large retail stores in the local retail market. These changes affect market efficiency in …

competition policies for poverty reduction strategies …

This paper surveys the recent literature exploring the causes of urban pollution in the developing world and the …

major tool in the trade policy arsenal. The paper examines these concerns in light of important ways in which the world …

of bank competition on firms' access to finance. They find that low competition, as measured by high values of the Lerner … firms' access to finance. In addition, they find that the impact of competition on access to finance depends on the … information, can mitigate the damaging impact of low competition. But other characteristics, such as high government bank …

methodology to include a trade in services element to yield a universal matrix of world trade and thus provide a more complete …

suggests a set of linkages between service-sector competition and goods trade supported by econometrics involving imports of 22 … OECD countries vis-agrave;-vis 69 exporters. Competition in services affects the volume of goods trade while the market … competition apparently matters most for exporters in smaller, poorer countries. By ignoring the structure of the domestic services …