a major risk for potential investors. High entry barriers lead to weak competition. Reducing the role of the state in … the economy and WTO membership should be viewed as opportunities to strengthen competition, and hence provide incentives … for productivity improvements, which are urgently required to ensure stronger growth in Russia because of a shrinking …

it to the railroad, electricity, and telecommunications sectors in Russia, Lithuania, Romania, and Poland …

reallocate. For restructuring to occur requires imposition of hard budget constraints and increases in competition. These in turn …

impact of several dimensions of market competition and other factors on enterprise efficiency. We analyze 1992-1998 panel …, intensity, time path, and survival effects of competitive pressures. We find large, positive effects on TFP from competition in …

general business environment and a range of measures of the intensity of competition as perceived by a firm. We find that … competition has an important and non-monotonic effect on the growth of sales and of labour productivity: some degree of perceived … market power is associated with higher sales growth, but competitive pressure is also important. Similar competition effects …

considerations. They argue that important policy goals like universal service will not be achieved by competition. However, an … my article, I describe a new concept of public-private competition, according to which governments use state owned … possible to extend public-private competition from urban to rural areas, where markets are too small to sustain more than one …

competition between private firms for the best motivated workers leads to higher wage cost than under the public monopsony …

After earlier waves of privatization, local governments have increasingly taken back control of local service … provisions in some sectors and countries and, instead, started providing those services themselves (reverse privatization). Using … the years 2003, 2009, and 2015, we investigate motives for reverse privatization. Our results show that, in deciding …