Abstract This paper is concerned with the neglected role of competition policy in East Asian development. Michael … Porter considers Japan's development to have benefitted from intense competition among firms. By contrast, Caves and Uekusa … inefficiency. This paper argues that competition policy in both Japan and Korea was oriented towards creating dynamic efficiency …

A sizable literature has grown up in recent years focusing on two-sided markets in which economies of scale combined …). In this paper we introduce a model of `porting' in such markets where porting denotes the conversion of `software' or …