big potential within retailing sector. On the other hand, an intensive competition exists in food retailing. Taking place …

Given the changes throughout the world where the global competition and the new economy based and led by knowledge are …

Economic analysis plays an important role in the field of competition for investigating the behavior of firms and for … competition authorities, as well as of the decisions of the courts. Concluding, we can consider qualitative economic analysis as … being an essential component for the development and enforcement of competition policy, thus supporting consumersâ …

competition economists for decades. While there has been much research on concentration in manufacturing markets, few studies have …

It is usually believed that higher competition, implying more active firms, benefits consumers and encourages the … antitrust authorities to foster competition. We show that this view can be misleading, and higher competition may actually make … of increasing competition through more firms. …

It is generally believed that higher competition benefits consumers, and encourage the antitrust authorities to foster … competition. We show that this view can be misleading in the presence of welfare-maximising nationalised firms. Using a simple … consumers. Our result is important for competition policy. …

Considering a move from monopoly to duopoly, Bastos et al. (“Open shop unions and product market competition”, 2010 … the evidence of a positive relationship between product market competition and unionized wage. We show that their … initially, higher product market competition reduces unionized wage, irrespective of the union density, bargaining power of the …

under regulatory control are indeed effective short-term policies for promoting gas-to-gas competition. …

This article is inspired by a public debate on the necessity to improve the rules for a competition in a certain area … starting point in rethinking the regulation of competition, rises the issue of the fundamental conditions which are defining … we believe the Romanian economy is based a little bit on everything defining the competition power, which is not …