This paper examines the importance of competition in innovation and the growth of firms. We make use of the large …-scale natural experiment of the shift from an economic system without competition to a market economy to shed light on the factors …

joining a club, or choosing one club to admire. Clubs compete by providing a public good. Competition between clubs increases … the public good provision level, and a sufficiently strong competition effect may even lead to overprovision. The model … open-source software projects, university fundraising and infrastructure competition between cities.  …

has been affected by European competition (the Single Market and Swedish EU membership). The study makes use of a census …. Increased foreign competition has contributed to reducing market power in sectors that were protected by tariff and non …

subjective theory of value. In this article Menger's analysis of competition is examined and it is suggested that he understood … competition as a dynamic process. All elements of the modern process-oriented analysis of competition along evolutionary lines are … contained in his work: the emphasis of the process and not of the end-state to which competition might lead, the variety of …

Two” has triggered both in the USA and Europe, competition law concerns and placed the (as yet little economically … conditions of the credit card market, and presents results from competition law discourse in a broader economic framework. The … crucial question from the competition law perspective of the market dominance of the “Big Two” is analyzed for European …

. To start with, I show that competition is best theoretically analyzed as an evolutionary process unfolding within legal …

Summary Boone (2008a) proposes a new competition measure based on Relative Profit Differences (RPD) that, from its … market competition, we expect fiercer competition after the uncovering. We asses the validity of the indicators by comparing … the indicated competition levels before and after the cartels were uncovered and stopped. The Boone-Indicator is …

Summary The paper demonstrates the compatibility between competition as a rivalry among firms and increasing returns …