...Adolf Kwadzo Dzampe Purpose This study tests the physician-induced demand (PID) hypothesis by examining the effect of competition, measured as an increase in district-level doctor-to-population ratio, on the provider-level quantity and intensity of medical care used by hypertension patients...

...Linh Ha Nguyen; Tam Thanh Le; Hoa Quynh Ha; Hung Viet Nguyen; Minh Tue Bui; Anh Tran Xuan Pham; Anh Quang Bui; Huong Nguyet Trieu Purpose This research examines how bank competition and corporate social responsibility (CSR) affect the stability of Vietnamese commercial banks. Design/methodology...

...Md Aslam Mia Purpose The purpose of this paper is to measure and track the evolution of market concentration and competition in the microfinance industry in Bangladesh by employing both the structural and non-structural measurement techniques. Design/methodology/approach By using a unique...

... and long‐lasting differences in sectoral, regional, and national development records may be justified. Design/methodology/approach The authors' analysis relies on the concept of free competition as developed by the classical economic tradition and particularly on the notions of regulating capital...

...Lefteris Tsoulfidis; Dimitris Paitaridis Purpose This paper aims to present the salient features of Smith's argument of the falling rate of profit. This theory has usually been interpreted as a result of the intensification of competition in the markets of goods and services of the factors...

...Walter Block Professor Modigliani argues that, owing to considerations derived from the model of perfect competition, price controls in general enhance economic welfare and that this applies in particular to health care. Maintains the diametric opposite on both counts: that the perfectly...

...Tatsuya Ohmori During the 1950s and 1960s the Japanese government promoted industrial organization in the form of a “competitive oligopoly” and fostered the institutionalizing of the strong competitive investment‐drive among large‐scale enterprises which came to characterize her economy. Reviews...