explore how the instruments can be employed to provide information on the impact of taxation on decision-making, competition …

in international data. More market orientation might be related to gender wage gaps via its effects on competition in …

Services form an increasing proportion of the inputs used in manufacturing. We explore empirically whether competition …-data for services, we calculate proxies for competition in services, and then use Input-Output matrices to link services to … manufacturing sectors. we find that there is a positive and significant relation between the extent of competition and firms …

This paper argues that economic competition and political contestability are two key determinants of the successful … development of the Swiss economy in the nineteenth and twentieth century. We describe how Switzerland evolved from a relatively … markets as well as a high degree of competition were crucial for the development of the Swiss economy. In addition, the Swiss …

This paper analyses the relationship between past innovation output, competition, and future innovation input in a … dynamic econometric setting. We distinguish two dimensions of competition that correspond to the concepts of product … substitutability and entry barriers due to fixed costs. Based on firm-level panel data for Germany and Switzerland we obtain consistent …

experiment conditions in Switzerland to analyze the impact of two different “bonus”/“malus” schemes implemented at the cantonal …