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 …

-sharing, screening opportunities, and competition are important driving forces behind these new forms of work organization. We document … competition substantially fosters the trust strategy, reduces market segmentation, and leads to large welfare gains for both …

There is a general presumption that social preferences can be ignored if markets are competitive. Market experiments … (Smith 1962) and recent theoretical results (Dufwenberg et al. 2008) suggest that competition forces people to behave as if … hold when uncertainty is important (financial markets) or when incomplete contracts are traded (labor markets). Social …