Mr Monti, who served as the EU's commissioner for the single market and then competition between 1995 and 2004, is a rare creature: an Italian economic liberal.
If the government soaked up enough resources then competition for those resources would become more intense, inflation would begin to heat up and there would again be an economic return to saving and hence freeing resources.
If only a few firms compete in a given product market, if the market is difficult to enter and if all leading firms adopt selective distribution, then competition between brands will not keep prices down and consumers will suffer.
As a business leader, he says he focuses on customers first, and then the team, and only then the competition.
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Through this ability to exit we then get competition between tax systems and this was the point of it all along.
Mr. DeMARTINO: I was in the rope climbing competition and then I was in the bouldering competition, which is climbing without a rope.
Incumbents may have less to fear from competition then they think, however.
If the states had any faith in free markets, they would ascertain that insurers have enough assets to pay off claims and then let price competition take over.
After all, it was the then-existing competition--from growing suburban newspapers, television, all-news radio stations and, of course, the Inquirer and Daily News--that lured readers and advertisers away from the Old Gray Lady of Market Street and helped ensure her doom.
Founded in 1981, Wind River struggled early on, first from the meltdown in the telecommunications business, and then from increasing competition from both Microsoft 's (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) Windows CE operating system and Linux.
The sprawling aerospace company forged from the merger of McDonnell Aircraft and Douglas Aircraft in 1967 saw its carrier-based A-12 bomber canceled in January, and then lost the competition to build a successor to its signature F-15 fighter three months later.
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Competition would then do what it has done elsewhere: generate productivity, innovation and better prices.
Officials then ran a design competition to see if a better bus could be invented.
As long as the value you deliver is greater than your competition, then you win more revenue.
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Microsoft is an exception to a rule that says companies get large, acquire competition and then stagnate.
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But then it will face competition from Boston Scientific (nyse: BSX - news - people ).
If you own municipal bond funds that out-yield the competition, then chances are the fund is chock full of tobacco bonds.
All the winners of the competition will then use that infrastructure.
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So News Corp will be concerned that a reference to Ofcom and then potentially to the Competition Commission could delay and even stymie the deal.
Buffeted by Chinese competition and then by the American recession, the economy grew at an annual average rate of just 1.8% between 2000 and 2011.
In 1982, then President Reagan permitted competition from new Brazilian mines.
Eventually, you will eliminate the opportunity for competition and then you are at the mercy of the last player standing who can now name his price.
We then get our old friend competition, which reduces those higher than average margins.
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If that's what happens when you pit energy vs. the environment, then it's a competition where everyone wins.
If the writer had expanded on Gaikais applications, then there would be no competition, because no one else offered the applicable options that Gaikai did.
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Netflix stole the market from Blockbuster by shifting the paradigm to video by mail and then innovated again by creating competition to its own model through electronic distribution.
Then I entered a regional competition for new business.
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But it has been losing market share since then as a result of competition from satellite pay-TV providers and telecom operators as well as budding online platforms like Netflix and Google TV.
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