. Available cross-country evidence suggests that enhancing competition is an important means to improve economic performance …. France is catching up with best practice in competition policy reform. However, other policy considerations often hamper the … emergence of effective competition. Relatively weak competitive pressures remain in a number of sectors, particularly in …

be improved to compete and survive in the batik industry. Porter (1995:5) describes competition as the core of the …

environment (i.e. tight competition, corruption, poor infrastructure) and low product quality are top obstacles to SME …, findings highlight that, in response to tight competition, younger and small SME respondents are more likely to respond in ways …

We explore and analyze competition between actors that stem from different industries. Using an inter-industry focus …

soft drinks. This study evaluates the pass-through of the tax, the influence on the tax of competition among different … competition faced by each store and find that with greater competition in the relevant market, there is less overall pass … greatest competition, the pass-through effect is perfect shifting. We also find that markets with greater competition show a …

pricing algorithms that allow for high-frequency price changes. What are the implications for price competition? We develop a … model of price competition where firms can differ in pricing frequency and choose algorithms that autonomously react to …

competitiveness of the funds, both in the area of price competition, and quality competition. Undoubtedly, besides from the market …, that statutory regulations completely eliminated the possibility of competition between the funds. The purpose of this … paper is to analyze the areas of competition between the funds and the possibility of increasing competitive pressure …