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China's size, rapid growth, external openness, and trade performance have led to varying perceptions among the countries of Latin America: Is China a potential new market, a potent new competitor, or both? This book assesses the near-term strategic implications of China's economic performance...
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China's size, rapid growth, external openness, and trade performance have led to varying perceptions among the countries of Latin America: Is China a potential new market, a potent new competitor, or both? This book assesses the near-term strategic implications of China's economic performance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010772418
Several recent papers argue that contracts provide reference points that affect ex post behavior. We test this hypothesis in a canonical buyer-seller relationship with renegotiation. Our paper provides causal experimental evidence that an initial contract has a highly significant and...
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Power sector reforms across Latin America in the 1990s based on privatization, liberalization, and market forces were largely unavoidable. This book argues that while there is no turning back from this process, many reforms may not prove sustainable without further efforts to build a stronger...
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degree of competition in that market, which is the starting point for undertaking any policy tool aimed at improving its … efficiency. This paper tests the extent of competition in the housing market in Santiago, Chile using a two-step methodology. In … the first step, using a hedonic price model, the Santiago housing market is divided into sub-markets, which are analyzed …
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The paper presents the analysis of recent developments of Schumpeterian theory of entrepreneurship and innovation in light of evolutionary economics.
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governance as well as economic and political competition, whereas the role of collaboration mechanisms is growing. This process …
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informational problems. We show that, as a consequence of this trade-off, more intense competition in unregulated segments of the … can lead to a softer merger policy when competition is weaker. …
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The debate on competition and innovation has produced a wide range of theoretical and empirical findings. Recently …, corporate governance quality has emerged as an additional factor that may complement or substitute for competition’s effect on … innovation. We aim to contribute to the debate by investigating whether product-market competition and corporate governance …
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approach ignores both the competition between oil companies, and the large geographical differences. The paper concludes by …
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