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We analyze the effect of competition in market-accessibility enhancement among quality-differentiated firms. Firms are …
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. Available cross-country evidence suggests that enhancing competition is an important means to improve economic performance …. France is catching up with best practice in competition policy reform. However, other policy considerations often hamper the … emergence of effective competition. Relatively weak competitive pressures remain in a number of sectors, particularly in …
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The paper provides insights about the automotive industry in Pakistan, first, by determining the structure and composition of the sector and its contribution to employment of the industry. We find out that although the industry is beginning to make a significant contribution to the Pakistani...
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This paper develops policy recommendations on the use of cluster-based economic policies and the adoption of a new concept of competitiveness in the context of the new growth path that WWWforEurope aims to outline. A first section discusses summarizes key findings from the previous research...
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This paper aims to redefine the term competitiveness to enhance its usefulness for the evaluation of country performance and for policy conclusions. We attempt to establish a definition that is adequate if economic policy strives for a new growth path that is more dynamic, socially inclusive and...
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This paper aims to redefine the term competitiveness to enhance its usefulness for the evaluation of country performance and for policy conclusions. We attempt to establish a definition that is adequate if economic policy strives for a new growth path that is more dynamic, socially inclusive and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411383
This article elaborates a dynamic rationale of industrial policy, focusing on how to strengthen the socio-economic system's ability to evolve, i.e. how to achieve high real income together with qualitative change. It highlights that the ubiquitous rationalities of failure, be it of markets,...
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The United States federal government preempted anti-competitive state and municipal telegraph regulations when the 1866 Post Roads Act was enacted. The act granted a de facto national franchise to build and operate a telegraph system anywhere in the United States to any telegraph company...
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. The Centre for Competition, Regulation, and Economic Development (CCRED) at the University of Johannesburg undertook a …
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We investigate the impact of import competition from low-cost countries on the exit of domestic firms from the …
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