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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 ...
exaly   +2 more sources

Economic geography with tariff competition [PDF]

open access: yesRegional Science and Urban Economics, 2008
Abstract A simple two-country model of economic geography is constructed in order to examine the effect of tariff competition on the spatial distribution of manufacturing activities as well as on welfare. We show that when the transport cost is small, tariff competition with firm migration leads to a core-periphery economy, where one of the two ...
Chao-cheng Mai   +2 more
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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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Competition and the regulation of economic development

The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 2005
This paper explores the idea that the competitive process is central to a process of economic development and that it underpins the self-transformation of economic systems and thus structural change. Innovation plays a key role in the competitive process and links economic development to enterprise and the growth of knowledge in general.
Metcalfe, J. Stan, Ramlogan, R.
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