which standards are set (monopoly versus competition). We present some data on how standards are set by Government SSOs and … sanctions, the threshold of agreement required for standards adoption, and standards competition. In Section 3, we provide data … on standards competition in the economy. This includes a case study of internet telephony where competing SSOs have …

Arguments in favor of school choice depend on the idea that competition between schools improves the quality of … education. However, we have almost no empirical evidence on whether competition actually affects school quality. In this study …, I examine the effects of inter-school competition on public schools by using exogenous variation in the availability and …