, high energy prices, globalization, and urbanization are transforming food consumption, production, and markets. The …

provision through banks and markets. Then I turn to liquidity provision on the asset side of banks' balance sheets and conclude …

procurement, competition, environment and labour issues - all qualified as new topics to the international negotiations agenda on …

the international comparisons, the price formation of the food chain, degree of concentration, competition, and the …, competition works in Finland just as well in agriculture, the foodstuffs industry and the wholesale and retail trade as it does in … consumer prices have not fallen in line with a decline in producer prices, 9) access of small producers to markets is important …

The use of traditional industry-level profitability indicators for assessing the state of competition is problematic … for two reasons. First, short-term variation reflects business cycles more than it does the impact of competition policy …. Second, rough industry-level indicators hide different mechanisms that are dependent on competition but may affect …

concentrated, and the degree of competition in their markets weakened. In competitive industries, R&D intensity did not decrease …The report's main objective is to assess the role that competition has played in the weak development of R …&D investments in the Finnish corporate sector in the 2010s. The data suggest that the degree of competition relates to differences …

industry is the loss of the Symbian mobile phone operating system in global competition. Together with that, profitability … collapsed, and no new R&D investment opportunities of a similar size were found. However, companies should not avoid competition … 2010s also highlight the importance of international competition and international trade agreements. The decline in the …

In this study, we use two representative surveysto investigate how competition and cooperation relate on the individual … competition and cooperation is positive and significant, even if we take into account the respondent's age, gender, settlement … type and region of residency. We also find that competition and cooperation relate in a nonlinear way to educational …

This study has as main objective to investigate if the energy markets liberalisation, in particular natural gas and … markets. The optimisation process will define an efficiency frontier, capable of classifying countries according to their …

The partial deregulation of electricity markets have meant a fundamental change to the previously regulated market. In … Europe the driving force in the electricity market reform is the electricity directive which introduces competition to … electricity markets. …