domestically-owned firms is through the impact on competition. We examine the effect of FDI on competition in the Chinese … manufacturing sector and the effect of competition on firms' R&D. Our analysis is conducted on a large dataset including all Chinese … large and medium sized firms over the period 1998-2004. Our results show that FDI increases competition but there are no …

competition in explaining productivity spillovers within industries. Our empirical analysis yields a number of important findings …

comparison with the United States. It has been argued that lack of product market competition and poor corporate governance are … product market competition experience higher rates of productivity growth. We also find weak evidence for the notion that in …

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 …

, 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 …

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 … from the standpoint of competition and consumer choice; the position of small producers can best be improved by fostering …