a Vickrey-Salop model of GP price and quality competition and test its predictions using a dataset with individual GP … characteristics of the GPs, their practices and their local areas. We measure the competition to which the GP is exposed by the …

. Many empirical studies suggest that financial reform promoted bank competition in most mature and emerging economies …. However, some earlier studies that adopted conventional approaches to measure competition concluded that bank competition in … Panzar- Rosse H-statistic fail to measure competition in Chinese loan markets properly due to the system of interest rate …

This paper examines whether or not hospital competition in a market with fixed reimbursement prices can prompt …. This paper assesses whether this aim has been achieved and competition led to improvements in quality. For our estimation … improved) for patients living in more competitive markets after the introduction of hospital competition in January 2006. Our …

sector regulators in network industries and the powers of the Competition Authority can still be enhanced, as the reform …

The debate on competition and innovation has produced a wide range of theoretical and empirical findings. Recently …, corporate governance quality has emerged as an additional factor that may complement or substitute for competition’s effect on … innovation. We aim to contribute to the debate by investigating whether product-market competition and corporate governance …

coverage exists. Moreover, it is found that a second entrant in this market strongly increases competition, while further entry … competition in this market. It is shown that this is not the case in some other retail markets, where entry by a third firm may … significantly affect competition. Finally, using the estimation results, it is show that the public policy, which consisted of …

at the retail level. A rapid price decline and a decline in revenues followed. Increased retail competition consequently … on the basis of a lack of competition. …

private sector’s expanding role in developing countries in general have focused attention on issues of competition, corporate … product market competition in seven emerging economies by time series analysis of persistence of corporate profitability … during the 1980s and 90s. The surprising central finding is that the intensity of competition in emerging markets is no less …