Innovation, competition and financial vulnerability in economic development

The financial sector has been viewed traditionally as either providing the "oil" for the "wheels of commerce" or as a parasite on the real sector of the economy where real productivity gains provide for increasing real wages and per capita incomes. The present paper takes a different route and attempts to an analysis of financial institutions on a par with the production sector of the economy. It also develops a link which amalgamates "the knowledge-based" perspective on firms' operations with Schumpeterian financial leverage to exploit productivity enhancing innovations, and Minsky's tendency towards financial fragility. The analysis also leads to some policy recommendations concerning financial regulation, risk management and financial institution's building.

Business competition dynamics: agent-based modeling simulations of firms in search of economic performance

A inten����o deste trabalho �� explorar din��micas de competi����o por meio de ���simula����o baseada em agentes���. Apoiando-se em um crescente n��mero de estudos no campo da estrat��gia e teoria das organiza����es que utilizam m��todos de simula����o, desenvolveu-se um modelo computacional para simular situa����es de competi����o entre empresas e observar a efici��ncia relativa dos m��todos de busca de melhoria de desempenho teorizados. O estudo tamb��m explora poss��veis explica����es para a persist��ncia de desempenho superior ou inferior das empresas, associados ��s condi����es de vantagem ou desvantagem competitiva

Legal and economic interfaces between antidumping and competition policy

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The effectiveness of technical assistance, socio-economic development and the absorptive capacity of competition authorities

Includes bibliography