Why do some countries adopt market-oriented reforms such as deregulation, privatization and liberalization of … competition in their infrastructure industries while others do not? Why did the pace of adoption accelerate in the 1990s? Building … on neo-institutional theory in sociology, we argue that the domestic adoption of market-oriented reforms is strongly …

other. As for competition policy, this implies that growth-enhancing policies maybe misguided and that quick deregulation as …This paper proves three theorems on growth and competition in a standard increasing variety endogenous growth model and … draws conclusions for second-best competition policies. First, no growth may be better than some growth, since modest …

done in the United Kingdom and the United States, by opening up to competition the upstream and downstream segments of … to competition is not so obvious in the European context, because, contrary to the examples of the North American and … EU legislation on the liberalisation and organisation of the internal market in gas. Competition on the downstream gas …

This paper uses the theory of "capital as power" to analyze the struggle over public pensions in the United States …

done in the United Kingdom and the United States, by opening up to competition the upstream and downstream segments of … to competition is not so obvious in the European context, because, contrary to the examples of the North American and … EU legislation on the liberalisation and organisation of the internal market in gas. Competition on the downstream gas …