oligopoly competition between certification bodies, showing that a higher degree of certification body competition results in … leading international food safety standard for food manufacturers, and find evidence that a higher degree of competition …

This paper assesses the impact of product market competition on job instability as proxied by the use of fixed … Strategies Survey, I show that job instability rises with competition. In particular, a one standard deviation increase in … competition in an economic sector decreases the probability that a fixed-term worker gets an open-ended contract within that …

growth by decreases in competition,thereby favoring Schumpeterian growth arguments for highly dynamic sectors. …

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 …

subsidies cause firms to locate in states where they have larger positive spillovers, subsidy competition can increase total …

innovation intensity to escape competition. The U-shaped relation is more pronounced in industries where firms compete in …

The Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) has concluded that competition in the market for SME loans … running their businesses, it is particularly important that there is sufficient competition in the market. A lack of … competition could lead to higher funding costs for SMEs, worse service from banks, and less innovation.ACM has established that …