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The EU agenda for improving competitiveness is missing in action. Economic competitiveness has been a central plank in the development of the European Union - a relentless quest for policies that lead to more prosperity and that make European companies in world markets more successful. However,...
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Power market integration is analyzed in a two countries model with nationally regulated firms and costly public funds. If generation costs between the two countries are too similar negative business-stealing outweighs efficiency gains so that following integration welfare decreases in both...
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This paper analyzes how competition works in mobile telecommuncations markets and, bases on this analysis, we discuss … understanding competition in mobile telephony, is the fact that building a mobile telephone network requires highly specific … interconnection and fixed-to-mobile termination may give rise to competition problems. As we argue in this paper, closer analysis …
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We consider the regulation of national firms in a common market. Regulators can influence the production of national … that supranational competition can have very different consequences on the rent seeking behaviour of firms, depending on …
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ambitioniertesten Reformprozeß unterworfen wurde. Deregulierung und Privatisierung sind die wesentlichen Bausteine, von denen dauerhaft … higher productivity and increasing macroeconomic growth rates, important deregulation and privatization measures were …
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done in the United Kingdom and the United States, by opening up to competition the upstream and downstream segments of … to competition is not so obvious in the European context, because, contrary to the examples of the North American and … EU legislation on the liberalisation and organisation of the internal market in gas. Competition on the downstream gas …
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This paper reviews the current empirical literature on competition and market structure of Philippine industries. It … shows that weak competition is one of the fundamental factors that explain limited growth, productivity, and employment in … the economy. Philippine experience has shown that reforms such as trade liberalization, deregulation, and privatization …
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