I explore the effect of banking concentration and banking competition on the volatility of the growth of value added of … and competition on credit access. Following the industrial organization literature, I look at the effect of banking … competition and banking concentration on the volatility of manufacturing sectors separately. I find that banking concentration has …

This paper examines a fundamental issue in the theory of economic organization: the optimal level of market competition … assumptions in both fields produce distinctly market-favoring and "more competition is better than less" conclusions. The paper … generalizes these assumptions and demonstrates organization-favoring and "less competition is better" positions are equally …

. It is possible that this is due to the lack of competition in the Australian media market. To the extent that we can …

How does competition affect innovation? We address this question by using a novel approach to measure quality - an … internationally comparable measure of quality enables us to separate the effect of reducing import tariffs, our measure of competition … our analysis on recent theoretical frameworks that predict that the effect of competition on innovation depends on firms …

. International trade has evolved from a specialized environment for export goods on the world market without competition to an … external environment characterized by intense competition between national economies. A national economy in order to be …

held beliefs, product market competition in emerging countries is no less intense than in advanced economies …

the effects of upstream competition vary with distance to frontier on a panel of 15 OECD countries and 20 sectors over …

have vast implications for competition, concentration and the efficiency of the financial sectors. This paper examines the … degree of competition and technical efficiency of the Polish commercial banks. The goal of this paper is to check whether …, during the analyzed period (1997- 2002), the concentration of the commercial banks had a negative impact on the competition …

While the theoretical literature has found that intense competition leads to the poorest borrowers dropping out of the … the empirical relationship between competition and wide outreach—which measures how poor-borrower microfinance … institutions (MFIs) provide loans—and its accompanying effect, the impact of competition on financial self-sufficiency (FSS …

role played by what are referred to as 'disruptive' competitors or new entrants; (2) the importance of competition between …