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Economic competition and political competition

Public Choice, 1972
Competition is a central and ubiquitous concept of economic analysis. It is much debated whether there has been a decline of competition in the market place, but assuredly no decline has taken place in its role in economic analysis.1 Although competition, and more generally rivalry no doubt has a vastly longer history in political than in economic ...
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Economic Integration as Competitive Discipline

International Economic Review, 1992
This paper reexamines the standard notion that economic integration will promote competition. Using an illustrative model, it is shown that integration will indeed enhance competition if the foreign firm is the low-cost producer. But if the foreign firm is the high-cost producer, integration will retard competition if the initial tariff level is low ...
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Federal competition and economic growth

Journal of Public Economics, 2009
Abstract This paper exploits exogenous variation in the natural topography of the United States to estimate the causal impact of inter-jurisdictional competition on income growth. We find that doubling the number of county governments in a metropolitan area leads to a 17% increase in the average annual growth rate of earnings per employee over 1969 ...
John William Hatfield, Katrina Kosec
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America's economic competitiveness

Industry and Higher Education, 1989
If the USA is to retain its preeminent economic position in the world it must improve the quality of its education and training. This article discusses the contribution of education to a nation's well-being, examines the current education system in the USA and analyses education and training needs for the 21st century.
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Competition Intensity, Potential Competition and Transaction Cost Economics [PDF]

open access: possibleWorld Competition, 2002
Mit der fortschreitenden Globalisierung der Weltwirtschaft nimmt auch der Grad des internationalen Wettbewerbs zwischen den Unternehmen zu. Von dieser Entwicklung sind aber nicht alle Firmen im gleichen Ausmaß betroffen. Einer der wichtigsten Determinanten des Globalisierungsgrades einer Branche ist die Höhe der Transaktionskosten.
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Economic competition and political competition: A comment

Public Choice, 1980
Unlike Stigler's original estimates, our re-estimation of his equations yields results which are consistent with economic theory. However, they raise questions regarding the extent to which the data provide a measure of support for the implications of his theory.
William W. Brown, Gary J. Santoni
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