development and social welfare in relation to the present and prospective discussions on competition policy in the WTO, UNCTAD …, OECD and other fora. Although this is the immediate backdrop for an examination of competition policy in relation to … for developing countries which emerge from the theoretical and empirical analysis of competition policy and economic …

This paper questions the existing notion of competition prevalent in economic theory. It is shown that the prevalent … idea of competition is incompatible with economic development. Fair competition, this paper argues, ought to be understood … competition. …

We study how competition and corporate governance may explain investment decisions of Mexican manufacturing firms. We … ownership and control), and market competition may encourage investment decisions. Furthermore they suggest an inverse … relationship between market competition and agency costs. We believe that our findings support the hypothesis that competition may …

competition and lack of outlets, as well as excess of taxes and regulations. …

The aim of the paper is to study statistical characteristics of the Research and Development (R&D) system of Georgia in … result we conduct positioning of Georgia in relation with each of these groups. As a corollary we conclude that in the years … 1996-2005 period Georgia could not secure funding and personal of its own R&D system and could not efficiently manage it …