competition over poverty and governance conducted by a NGO in the allocation of its funds among potential recipient countries. The … competition for aid, and the outcome for the quality of governance. …

-of-return regulation (ROA, NP:s and/or BIS ratio) on banking industry structure. A simple theoretical model of banking competition suggests …This paper analyses the impact of the transition from price-cap regulation (deposit/loan rate control) to rate …. Imposing more stringent rate-of-return regulation, whilst relaxing price-cap regulation, reduces the equilibrium number of …

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 …

enterprises using the panel firm level dataset for 1995-2004. The analysis of the competition structure of Russian industrial … is negative. Our findings show that positive effect from foreign competition appears to be restrained by barriers …

with strong heterogeneity between schools. The introduction of an indicator of competition, based on the density of schools …, suggests that intensified school competition lowers results in schools with a high share of pupils from weaker socio …

competition. They may also impose transaction and administrative costs related to permitting and licensing. If stringent …

agency, the unbundling of generation, transmission, and distribution, the introduction of competition and the implementation … generation segment, has significantly benefited from the introduction of independent regulation, the beneficial effects of (good …

agency, the unbundling of generation, transmission, and distribution, the introduction of competition and the implementation … generation segment, has significantly benefited from the introduction of independent regulation, the beneficial effects of (good …

the effects of upstream competition vary with distance to frontier on a panel of 15 OECD countries and 20 sectors over … 1985-2007. Competitive pressures are proxied with sectoral product market regulation data. We find evidence that … sectoriels de régulation sur les marchés des biens. Les résultats montrent que, sur les 15 dernières années, les régulations …

worker (age, sex, education and type of contract) in 12 European and North-American countries. The effects of regulation on … these wage premia are estimated by panel data regression techniques. We find that product market regulation restricting … competition has a significant positive impact on wage premia in both manufacturing and non-manufacturing industries. However, in …