The present article analyses the impact of government instability, internal tensions, and political competition on … growth. Also, the political competition index affirmatively and significantly impacts economic growth …

receiving aid. Potential recipients must compete for the aid funds. The structure of the competition is important to the donor …

MRP prices leading to substantial cost savings for the transmission system operators. -- Competition ; Frequency Control … ; Minute Reserve Power ; Regulation ; Productive Efficiency ; Welfare …

The effect of market competition on firm innovation remains controversial, especially in the context of developing … countries. This paper presents new empirical evidence about the causal impact of competition on firm innovation for Chilean and … Colombian manufacturing firms. Using instrumental-variable estimation, our results show that market competition increases firm …

diminish its access to global markets, the scale and efficiency of domestic businesses, the level of competition, and the … planning and infrastructure provision, enhancing competition and increasing investment in innovation and intangibles. This …

This paper examines the role of removing obstacles to competition in product markets in raising growth and productivity …. Using firm-level data from Italy during 2003-13 and OECD measures of product market regulation, we estimate the effect of …

-Rosse (1987) approach to measuring market concentration, we find evidence of perfect competition prevailing in Korean banking …

, universities in Australia and New Zealand have faced increased competition for students. The aim of this paper is to explore the … efficiency of Australian and New Zealand public universities and to investigate the impact of competition for students from … 1997-2003 for New Zealand. The results show that competition for overseas students has led to increased efficiency in …

innovatively uses Boone indicator to test the competition in different banking markets namely deposit market, loan market and non …