infrastructure, it is necessary to liberalize rail transportation and to modernize port governance, especially by reducing red tape …

efficacy of recent liberalization measures designed to promote competition in both industries. Interstate travel service in the … operators and airlines is found to be highly significant and probably due to the competition for a small but increasing set of …

Purpose - The purpose of this study is to compare the competition and productivity of the US freight rail … of a regulatory body in the freight transportation market impacted the productivity of the freight rail transportation …. Findings - This study found that, after the abolishment of the ICC: (1) the rail industry became less competitive, (2) even if …

The research investigates the different policies for the development of rail transport infrastructures in Europe. The … effects on the competitiveness of the different national rail supply industries are evaluated …

industry is unusual because there exist two horizontally segmented retail markets with different degrees of competition: the … predicts that competition is the key driver of the rate at which technology is adopted. -- Innovation ; market structure …

industry is unusual because there exist two horizontally segmented retail markets with different degrees of competition: the … predicts that competition is the key driver of the rate at which technology is adopted …

We develop a model of spatial competition to explore how changes in the market structure affect the incentives of banks … reveal that the relaxation of competition distorts banks' incentives to invest in screening …

This paper examines the competition law enforcement record of nine authorities in southern Africa over a three … regional value chains in southern Africa, highlighting the key challenges of competition law enforcement and the primary … collected through detailed interviews with competition authorities, the paper finds that although firms are playing an important …

market competition affects the economic gain firms can obtain from innovation. Empirical evidence is lacking because the … innovation value is not observable, and the innovation-competition relationship is endogenous. This paper adopts a stock market … empirical challenges. Empirical analyses suggest a negative relationship between market competition and patent value and that a …

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 …