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Asplund, Björn Marcus; Nocke, Volker - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

that entry and exit rates are positively correlated across industries. Our objective is to investigate the effect of sunk … costs and, in particular, market size on entry and exit rates. We analyse a stochastic dynamic model of a monopolistically … show existence and uniqueness of a stationary equilibrium with simultaneous entry and exit: efficient firms survive while …

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Restructuring And Productivity Growth In UK Manufacturing

Disney, Richard F; Haskel, Jonathan; Heden, Ylva - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

We analyse productivity growth in UK manufacturing 1980-92 using the newly available ARD panel of establishments drawn from the Census of Production. We examine the relative importance of 'internal' restructuring (such as new technology and organizational change) and 'external' restructuring...

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Multinational Firms: Easy Come, Easy Go?

Haaland, Jan I.; Wooton, Ian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

within a region, explicitly taking into account exit, as well as entry, costs. Protecting workers by having strict lay … influence the entry decision? …

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Trade Barrier Volatility and Agricultural Price Stabilization

Anderson, Kym; Nelgen, Signe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

National barriers to trade are often varied to insulate domestic markets from international price variability. This paper explores the extent of that behavior by governments using estimates of agricultural price distortions in 75 countries. Newly estimated price transmission elasticities are...

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Distorted Agricultural Incentives and Economic Development: Asia’s Experience

Anderson, Kym - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

Earnings from farming in many low-income countries have been depressed by a pro-urban bias in own-country policies, as well as by governments of richer countries favoring their farmers with import barriers and subsidies. Both sets of policies reduce national and global economic welfare. The...

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Global Distortions to Agricultural Markets: New Indicators of Trade and Welfare Impacts, 1955 to 2007

Anderson, Kym; Croser, Johanna L.; Lloyd, Peter J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

Despite recent reforms, world agricultural markets remain highly distorted by government policies. Traditional indicators of those price distortions can be poor guides to the policies’ economic effects. Recent theoretical literature provides indicators of trade- and welfare-reducing effects of...

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Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Australia Since World War II

Anderson, Kym; Lloyd, Peter J; Maclaren, Donald - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Australia’s lacklustre economic growth performance in the first four decades following World War II was in part due to an anti-trade, anti-primary sector bias in government assistance policies. This paper provides new annual estimates of the extent of those biases since 1946 and their gradual...

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Agricultural trade distortions during the global financial crisis

Anderson, Kym; Nelgen, Signe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

The recent upward spike in the international price of food led some countries to raise export barriers. As in previous price spike periods, that response by some food-exporting countries was accompanied by a lowering of import restrictions by numerous food-importing countries. Both actions...

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Novel Indicators of the Trade and Welfare Effects of Agricultural Distortions in OECD Countries

Anderson, Kym; Croser, Johanna L. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

Agricultural markets in OECD countries have long been highly distorted by government policies. Traditional weighted average aggregates of the price distortions involved, such as producer and consumer support estimates (PSEs and CSEs), can be poor indicators of the trade restrictiveness and...

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Legal Form, Growth and Exit of West German Firms - Empirical Results for Manufacturing, Construction, Trade and Service Industries

Harhoff, Dietmar; Stahl, Konrad; Woywode, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

In this paper we discuss determinants of firm survival and growth in Germany within its pre-1989 boundaries. We argue that the legal form adopted by a firm is an important indicator of the riskiness of projects undertaken, and that firms under limited liability should be characterized by higher...

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