coverage exists. Moreover, it is found that a second entrant in this market strongly increases competition, while further entry … competition in this market. It is shown that this is not the case in some other retail markets, where entry by a third firm may … significantly affect competition. Finally, using the estimation results, it is show that the public policy, which consisted of …

in various sectors of the Danish economy. It looks at a number of indicators of the strength of competition — including … competition legislation framework. The paper then focuses on the large public sector, which has been slow to open up to … competition, partly because of regulatory restrictions but also because some local governments are too small to handle tenders and …

Vigorous product market competition plays a central role in bolstering productivity growth. Sweden has strengthened … competition legislation and deregulated a number of sectors, including electricity, telecommunications and parts of transport …, over the past 10 to 15 years. This paper examines the current state of product market competition and proposes further …

increase with the intensity of competition. We develop a new measure of competition for which we use the proximity (in … departure time) of a given flight to its competitors to infer the intensity of competition and estimate the impact of … competition on advance purchase discounts (APDs) and the dynamic pricing of airlines by exploiting plausibly exogenous changes in …

years. One measure to enhance overall efficiency would be to strengthen competition on the domestic market to drive future … horizon. This paper focuses on increasing competition in network sectors, including energy, telecommunication services and …. Competition could also be increased by lowering barriers to interprovincial trade and the movement of labour, which act to …

, profitability, and size) and characteristics of the utilities taking bribes (such as competition and utility capacity) affect the … paid to utilities are higher in countries with greater constraints on utility capacity, lower levels of competition in the … product of Regulation and Competition Policy, Development Research Group - is part of a larger effort in the group to …

, interactive e-commerce, etc.). We introduce a systems model with free entry and competition in all three industry segments and …