European Union countries have implemented widespread reforms to product markets in order to stimulate competition … (SMP) were associated with increased product market competition, as measured by a reduction in average profitability, and … reforms on average profitability, and the effects of profitability on innovation and productivity growth. – Competition …

wieder wird die Frage nach effektivem Wettbewerb in der Energieversorgung kontrovers beantwortet, nicht zuletzt unter dem … Bandes - allesamt schriftliche Fassungen der im März 2008 in Kiel auf der Jahrestagung 2008 der Arbeitsgruppe Wettbewerb des …

This paper is the first that applies a new measure of competition, the Boone indicator, to the banking industry. This … approach is able to measure competition of bank market segments, such as the loan market, whereas many well-known measures of … competition can consider the entire banking market only. A caveat of the Boone-indicator may be that it assumes that banks …

auf die bereits vorliegenden Forschungen zur Deregulierung durch die HwO-Novelle 2004 stützen könne. Jüngste Forschungen … sich nicht belegen, dass die Deregulierung des Handwerks seit 2004 zu einem Beschäftigungswachstum geführt habe. Die …. This report seeks to summarize the theoretical and empirical literature on licensing deregulation. We will critically …

, it is important to maintain competition among payment service providers but data available to gauge the degree of … competition are quite limited. We propose and implement a frontierbased method to assess relative competition in bank …

competition among firms leads to an increase in the variety of developed projects and a decrease in the amount of duplication of …

market economies. The primary focus of the study is on competition and market structure, finance and the structure of lending … interpretation of the evidence on competition is that there is an initial move by firms into niches to exploit local market power …

competition arising from trade reforms lead to increases in innovation? This paper attempts to examine the link between trade … Licandro (2009, 2010) as guide, a two-stage approach is tested where trade and innovation are linked via competition. A … reduction in tariffs leads to an increase in competition as price cost margins fall due to the increase in the number of players …