Competition and a competitive environment serve as a crucial foundation for the effective use of resources and the … goods. Customers may obtain more advantages at a lesser cost and of better quality when there is a strong competition. The … investment. Consumer protection and competition are critical for achieving economic growth and decreasing poverty. The …

This paper analyses the extent of inter-format retail competition between supermarkets, discounters and drugstores in … finding contrasts with recent speculations by competition authorities that private label products may belong to a different …

patterns for a particular market (diapers) to investigate the inter-format competition (supermarkets vs. discounters vs … sold at drugstores and discounters. This result is important given controversies among competition authorities, firms and …

EU payment sector. Second, it discusses the role of competition enforcement in the shadow of the PSD2. Finally, the Paper …

willing to revive old antitrust doctrines if it wishes to continue to protect competition and consumers. The monopoly …

build a framework with entry, imperfect competition, heterogeneous households, and incomplete markets. Recent trends in … restrict competition. Those trends account for 11% to 22% of the increase in income inequality observed between 1989 and 2007 … transition from a high to a low competition environment. These are either the wealthy, or agents with low productivity relative …

This paper discusses the current state of product market competition in Iceland, including the legal and regulatory … competition law since the early 1990s have strengthened competitive forces in many sectors of the economy, and proposed amendments … have helped vigorous competition to develop in most segments, but there remain problems in pricing of access to the local …