at the retail level. A rapid price decline and a decline in revenues followed. Increased retail competition consequently … on the basis of a lack 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 …

The Slovenian transition represents a slow but steady liberalization of constraints on competition. Using a unique … as surviving firms, prove to be the major source of TFP gains. Market competition from new entrants, foreign-owned firms …, and international trade also raise firm efficiency in the industry. Results strongly confirm that market competition …

This paper studies the effect of product market competition on the compensation packages that firms offer to their … executives and in particular its impact on the sensitivity of pay to performance. To measure the effect of competition we use two … financial sectors as quasi-natural experiments. We provide difference in differences estimates of the effect of competition on …

The Slovenian transition represents a slow but steady liberalization of constraints on competition. Using a unique … as surviving firms, prove to be the major source of TFP gains. Market competition from new entrants, foreign-owned firms …, and international trade also raise firm efficiency in the industry. Results strongly confirm that market competition …

This paper discusses the relation between trade and competition, revising the literature and using indicators, build … domestic competition is explained by concentration indices, such as CR4 and HHI, which show positive correlation with profit … evaluating trade and competition policies in the context of the Brazilian economy. …

In this study, we investigate how product market competition affects the extent of analyst following and the properties … and forecast properties is more pronounced in countries with less effective competition laws and higher entry costs. These … and lower their information uncertainty, and that country-level institutions that promote competition effectively …

the "competition effect", by which desired price markups and inflation decrease when entry rises. We find that a 1 percent …