Does greater product market competition improve external competitiveness and growth? This paper examines this question … emerging market economies and developing countries, and finds that an improvement in domestic competition is associated with a … productivity growth. Price levels, including of essential items, are also generally lowered with an increase in competition …

to decline as antitrust enforcement regimes had become stricter. As predicted by cartel theory, market structure is an …

on competition, and therefore on business dynamism, productivity and ultimately well-being. A recent update of the OECD …. Regulatory reform can improve consumer welfare by boosting competition and thus lowering prices of key goods and services, which … competition will also allow higher wages. Reducing barriers to entry can facilitate firm creation, boosting investment and jobs. …

In this paper we have developed a model which analyzes price competition in the deregulated Spanish electriciy market … settling stranded costs payments. We show that stranded costs recovery and efficient competition are not necessarily …

majority share of the markets for general-search results and advertising, prompting antitrust and competition-law scrutiny of …. This type of steering forecloses competition in markets not immediately adjacent to the platform itself. Current antitrust …

Competition agency guidelines, policy statements and related advocacy are an important vehicle for policy expression … guidelines and policy statements has, arguably, been particularly important in the context of the competition policy treatment of … intellectual property rights, given the complexity of this area, the importance that competition agencies attach to it, and its …