We analyse the relationship between the quality of a GP practice in England and the degree of competition that it faces … obtained from the national GP patient survey). The association between increased competition and higher quality is found for GP … fraction of the potential benefits to patients from increased choice and competition …

interact with the degree of local credit market competition to increase lending growth. Specifically, I use a shift … in more competitive mortgage markets; with less-regulated non-bank lenders being most responsive to this competition …

and competition with generics. The nature of demand for drugs, the identity of drugs brought to market, and the nature of … competition in the drug market over time are all shaped by regulation. Throughout much of the world, administrative regulation …, rather than competition policy, dominates efforts to afford consumers and governments adequate access to affordable drugs …

In this paper, we analyse the potential application to the cloud computing services sector of EU competition rules …

This paper investigates the impact of technical progress on the relationship between competition an investment. Using a … model of oligopoly competition with di¤erentiated products where firms invest to reduce their marginal cost of production, I … competition that maximizes investment of the industry. This feature holds also for consumer surplus and Welfare. In the model …

reconcile these findings by linking part of the increase in domestic concentration to import competition. Although concentration … increase. We find that higher import competition caused a decline in the market shares of the top twenty U.S. firms. …

This study examines the association between auditor concentration and intra-industry competition in the client industry …. It has been suggested that competition within the client industry may cause some firms to seek auditors that are not … 1999) examining the association between auditor industry concentration and client industry competition have yielded …

This paper investigates whether and how import competition affects firm innovation. Using China’s World Trade … Organization (WTO) accession as a quasi-natural experiment, we find that import competition reduces firm innovation, which is … in a way consistent with preference and knowledge spillover effects, but not with escape-competition and trapped …