This document focuses on innovation, human capital, technology transfers and competition as potential sources of …&D in order to adopt existing technologies from other (domestic) firms. Competition on Dutch markets plays a role in …

reduces entry barriers and can increase competition. Using data from US markets from 1995 to 2004, we estimate the effects of … ISR on entry and retail prices. Results show that ISR has no effect on entry and actual competition. However, controlling … for actual competition, ISR authorization causes an average reduction in prices of 32.7 percent. Markets with relatively …

This paper analyzes the extent to which the reduction of import tariffs ‒ as a measure of import competition ‒ affects … frontier’ model (Aghion et al., 2005) who predicts a non-monotonic relation between competition and innovation. Quality is …-monotonic relationship between competition and quality upgrading, with varieties close to the world frontier more likely to upgrade quality …

competitive markets. Our results suggest that hospital competition can lead to improvements in hospital quality. …

In the last CentrePiece, John Van Reenen stressed the importance of competition and labour market flexibility for …

effects are due to increased competition for local resources. …