This paper considers the influence of spatial competition on education and its effect on students' school choice and … of the associated costs and prospective benefits from doing so. We analyze how competition between schools affects … competition which increases school productivity and student performance. This result confirms the findings in Hoxby (2000 …

This paper uses firm level data for the period 1989-2001 to analyse the working of competition in India’s manufacturing … sector. It examines the impact of greater competition on profit mark-up over the last decade. The econometric analysis of the …

We address the question of how lending market competition, measured by the bargaining power of banks, affects the … agency costs of debt finance. It is shown that intensified lending market competition will lead to lower lending rates and … lending market competition will reduce the agency cost of debt financing. …

, we focus on an issue that is increasingly important for competition policy analysis : "potential" foreign competition. …

One of the most important and most contentious issues for regulation and competition raised by the 1996 …) adopted a standard requiring that a Bell's local market must first be irreversibly open to competition. This paper analyzes …