substitutability of market competition and private ownership in increasing firm efficiency. We analyse a simple Cournot model that … competition, and thus that competition only among state-owned enterprises may be ineffectual in stimulating them to increase …

government regulation may reduce transaction costs, intensifying the competition associated with a given market structure, and we … use data from the recently liberalized and regionally diverse country of Russia to test the hypothesis. Estimating …

-enhancing roles in Russia in the immediate post-privatization period. We find evidence of a positive impact of privatization on labor … market competition is weaker, depending on model specification. Soft budget constraints are usually found to reduce … subsidy reduction are substitutes; privatization and competition (measured as the geographic scope of markets) are complements …

Zeitraum 1995 bis 1999 empirisch der Einfluss der Marktstruktur auf die allgemeine Innovationsaktivität sowie speziell jene im …

Wirkungen auf die Marktstruktur. Sie reduzieren nicht einfach die Zahl der Wettbewerber in einem Markt, sondern durch Fusionen …

weithin durch einen Wettbewerb der Handelsgruppen verdrängt wurde, hat sich eine regelrechte Theorie des System- bzw …

Belief that competition is beneficial in general and for productive efficiency in particular is likely to root in … competition's well established and rigorously proved positive relation to the optimal allocation of economic resources. This paper … looking at the production side of the economy attempts to provide another argument in favor of competition as a productivity …

profitability using new data on Russia that allow us to overcome the endogeneity problem of market structure and expand on the … are persistent in the long run. And we find for Russia that capital intensity is negatively related to profitability …

growth by decreases in competition,thereby favoring Schumpeterian growth arguments for highly dynamic sectors. …