accumulation the leader's R&D effort increases with the gap as she is trying to avoid competition in the future. When firms gain … causes an equilibrium where the incentives to innovate are highest when competition is most intense. …

This paper examines the strength of product market competition and economic performance in Canada and discusses way in … which the institutional framework governing competition policy could be improved. Competitive forces are comparatively … strong and administrative and economic regulations inhibiting competition are amongst the lowest in the OECD countries …

This paper assesses what role product market competition and regulatory reforms may have played in the performance of … regulations inhibiting competition and barriers to trade amongst the lowest in the OECD. Nevertheless, there is scope for … improvement and the recent overhaul of competition legislation should help to further promote competition. Much progress has been …

This paper assesses what role product market competition and reforms may have played in the performance of the Dutch …. Competition in product markets has been strengthened through the creation of a competition authority (NMa) and the Competition … competition, by reducing barriers to business start-ups and the expansion of small businesses, as well as lowering business costs …

Competition and market power have been the focus of much of the empirical research conducted by the EIM in the recent … market situations ranging from perfect competition and to that of a full cartel or monopoly. This model represents both …

considered to be the most fundamental aspects of market power. Perfect competition is commonly advocated as optimal. If the price … situation of imperfect competition. …

&D personnel and industry concentration exists. If market concentration is a measure of competition than we can conclude that … intangible assets and competition was measured by Lerner index. Finally, our analysis concluded that although foreign firms are …

competition and market structure, finance and the structure of lending to firms, and how firms respond to the economic environment … observed in the BEEPS surveys of developed market economies. Our interpretation of the evidence on competition is that there is …

Belief that competition is beneficial in general and for productive efficiency in particular is likely to root in … competition's well established and rigorously proved positive relation to the optimal allocation of economic resources. This paper … looking at the production side of the economy attempts to provide another argument in favor of competition as a productivity …