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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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Although justification for competition policies is well founded in the economic literature, there is a need to … consensus that "competition is good," there is vagueness in the minds of many and uncertainty about the need for competition … policy and how competition should be enforced. This paper aims to contribute to the growing discussion on how to proceed from …
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resistance, compare cooperative and for-profit business models, and make a first cut in the analysis of system competition. …
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This paper explores the relationship between competition policy, experience of the application of competition policy …, the intensity of local competition and the standard of living. Perception data from the World Economic Forum is used to … measure the intensity of local competition. Richer and larger countries in general introduce competition policy earlier than …
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Institutionenökonomik und der Evolutorischen Ökonomik aufbaut. Er kritisiert die gängigen normativen Konzeptionen in der Wettbewerbspolitik …, insbesondere die Idee des Wettbewerbs als Allokationsmechanismus, und plädiert für eine regelgeleitete Wettbewerbspolitik, die sich …
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The study assesses the state of competition in the Philippine wholesale and retail sector, focusing on the distribution … retail competition like price, geographical location, retail product and retail service. Industry data from the National …--factors that are not regarded as anti-competitive and are welfare enhancing to the general public. The need for competition policy …
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Grundlagen erläutert und es stellt sich heraus, daß der Wettbewerb als ein evolutionärer Prozeß zu analysieren ist, der innerhalb … institutionenökonomisch-evolutionäre Wettbewerbsleitbild in seinen Grundzügen skizziert und für eine regelgeleitete Wettbewerbspolitik, die … competition policy. I call it the Institutional-Evolutionary Antitrust Model. In order to construct an antitrust model one needs …
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competition policy. I call it the Institutional-Evolutionary Antitrust Model. In order to construct an antitrust model one needs … both empirical knowledge and considerations of how to adequately deal with norms. The analysis of competition as an … Grundlagen erläutert und es stellt sich heraus, daß der Wettbewerb als ein evolutionärer Prozeß zu analysieren ist, der innerhalb …
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We show that, in the case when innovations are for sale, increased product market competition, captured by reduced … the bidding competition for the innovation and by increasing the relative profitability of being the most efficient firm … in the industry. Moreover, it is shown that increased intensity of competition can increase the relative profitability of …
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We test the hypothesis that consumption smoothing occurs after large, but not small, expected future income shocks. Even though this hypothesis has often been discussed, formal evidence in support of it is rare. We use individual level, monthly, bank account data to examine how expected income...
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