How Do Regulations of Entry and Credit Access Relate to Industry Competition? : International Evidence /

We examine the extent to which regulations of entry and credit access are related to competition using data on 28 manufacturing sectors across 64 countries. A robust finding is that bureaucratic and costly entry regulations tend to hamper competition, as proxied by the price-cost margin, in the indu...

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Huvudupphovsman: Igan, Deniz
Övriga upphovsmän: Mirzaei, Ali, Moore, Tomoe
Materialtyp: Tidskrift
Språk:English
Publicerad: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2018.
Serie:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2018/084
Länkar:Full text available on IMF