This paper examines a decade of retail competition in the Dutch electricity market and discusses market structure …, regulation, and market performance. We find a proliferation of product variety, in particular by the introduction of quality …, but it can also indicate a strategic product differentiation to soften price competition. Although slightly downward …

Empirical work shows that competition is important for promoting economic growth. However, in Japan the promotion of … competition has long been compromised by ministerial guidance and exemptions from the competition law. Thus, the level and growth … Japanese economy had difficulty in coming out of the quasi-stagnation of the past decade. Recognising that gains from more pro-competition …

. Competition has an important role to play in achieving such gains. However, Korea’s development strategy has tended to weaken … competition and has left a legacy of government intervention. Strengthening competition requires upgrading competition policy …

Although the allocative efficiency benefits of competition are a tenet of microeconomic theory, the relation between … competition and technical efficiency is less well understood. Neoclassical models of profit-maximization subsume static cost …-minimizing behavior regardless of market competitiveness, but agency models of managerial behavior suggest possible scope for competition …

In pursuit of economic growth and development, countries have tried to strike a balance between competition and … how the introduction of competition policies and laws in South Korea, China, India, Indonesia and the Philippines affected … role for recalibrating policies to adjust the balance between industrial concentration and competition, so that the over …

competition, akin to the competition in wholesale electricity markets. An acute form of market power may arise if a supplier is …