This paper discusses the economics of the Internet backbone. I discuss competition on the Internet backbone as well as … relevant competition policy issues. In particular, I show how public protocols, ease of entry, very fast network expansion … large web site to multiple ISPs (customer multi-homing) enhance price competition and make it very unlikely that any firm …

carriers), and we point to the real danger that the intent of Congress in passing the 1996 Act to promote competition in …

degree of competition using the H-statistic by Panzar and Rosse (1987). The estimated H-statistics for the whole sample … periods are positive ranging from 0.38 to 0.62 and the Wald test for the market structure of monopoly or perfect competition … is rejected implying that the Islamic banks in Malaysia earned their revenue in the condition of monopolistic competition. …

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 … profit mark-up. The paper also investigates the degree of competitiveness defined as the Lerner price-cost margin. 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. …