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This paper builds on an earlier working paper no. 04/15 on barriers to entry and inclusive growth by assessing the … linkages between competition policy as a micro-economic tool and other national policy objectives. In so far as the mandates of … one that is more inclusive, the objectives of competition policy and other policies are complementary. For example, the …
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conditions of entry may raise national welfare concerns. Furthermore, certain governments could have taken greater advantage of …
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what kind of competition is suitable in the utilities, and discuss obstacles that lie in the path of competition. They … address in detail the institutional design of sector specific regulation. National and supra-national regulatory structures …
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and competition, teledensity growth and sector productivity still remain low. The telecommunication sector's contribution … initiatives will be required to anticipate cherry picking by new entrants and reinforce their commitment to increasing network …
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This paper presents theory and evidence from Chinese firm-product data that, given firm productivity, trade liberalization increases product markups. This finding calls for a reconsideration of the well-established imports-as-market-discipline hypothesis. This paper further verifies underlying...
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intensifies competition and hence decreases the market power of a firm. This paper presents further empirical evidence to verify …
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In this paper, I estimate the impact of heterogeneity in non-tariff measures policies on countries’ global value chain-related trade and its backward and forward components. I first build a regulatory distance index, which measures the degree of dissimilarity in non-tariff measure structures...
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Particular conceptions of peace can be associated with logics of dominance and imposition, but also human flourishing and emancipation. These dynamics have been amply explored in debates about liberal peacebuilding over the past two decades. Despite a recent renaissance of attention, however,...
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