Title: Economic reforms and the competitive environment of firms
Description: This paper lays out several hypotheses to establish a specific link between economic reforms and the competitive environment of firms. We test our hypotheses on data from the steel industry in three post-reform economies. We find that economic reforms tend to have a positive effect on environmental munificence, but they also produce short-term instability in the environment. We elaborate on the implications of our results for managers, policy makers and scholars.