However, he noted that competition authorities had approved the merger, so market share was clearly low enough that "it was not a problem anywhere".
Josh Bivens of the Economic Policy Institute noted that competition from cheaper workers overseas can be expected to slow the wage growth of American workers over coming years.
Martin Gaynor, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University and former chief economist at the Federal Trade Commission, noted that competition policy was about increasing the economy's efficiency, not changing the distribution of the spoils.
Mr. Takebe, the agriculture minister, approvingly noted that "competition between whales and fisheries" is to be studied by the fisheries committee of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, though he did not mention that the panel's head is a colleague, Masayuki Komatsu, Japan's deputy delegate to the International Whaling Commission.
The NAO noted that "competition was envisaged to be a key value-for-money safeguard".
Robert Canning of IGN called it "very underwhelming" and gave it an "okay" rating of 6.5 out of 10; he noted that competition episodes such as this one spend more time on performance, and deemed the non-performance segments "blase".
Other researchers have noted that competition for limited organizational resources can be a potential source of conflict [ 4].
The allostery was first noted in competition experiments using different topological forms of the substrate (Claeys Bouuaert et al., 2011).
James et al. (46) noted that competition also occurs within biofilms and demonstrated that invasion of a Hyphomicrobium sp. biofilm by P. putida resulted in dominance by the P. putida, even though the biofilm-associated Hyphomicrobium numbers remained relatively constant.
Indeed, the study notes, "competition among lenders to finance hotel acquisitions has driven financial institutions to continue to ease lending standards, increase loan-to-value ratios, and decrease loan spreads despite the minor increases in interest rates in 2006".
