The aim of this paper is to investigate the procompetitive effects of foreign trade on domestic firms' performance by considering the determinants of markup size using a dynamic panel of Slovenian manufacturing firms from 1995 to 2004. We examine how domestic and foreign firms' encounters affect...

The current economic crisis has become a global phenomenon. However, the path to the economic crisis, its materialization and persistence are also country-specific and can only be studied by considering a country's past economic development, existing institutional environment, and the economic...