The Dark Side of Competitive Pressure
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- 1 January 2003
- preprint
- Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
One of the most basic principles in economics is that competitive pressure promotes efficiency. However, this pressure can also have a dark side because it makeKeywords
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