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entry and financial development. Incumbents seek a low level of effective investor protection to prevent potential entrants … higher rents earned with less competition. Entry and investor protection improve when wealth distribution becomes less … countries we find that greater accountability is associated with higher entry in sectors that are more dependent on external …
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The health care professions in Europe have been subject to substantial entry and conduct regulation. Most notably … competition through geographic entry restrictions. We develop an entry model to study the direct impact of the regulations on the … representative for many other countries with geographic entry restrictions. We find that the entry decisions of pharmacies and …
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market with horizontal product differentiation when choosing its level of roll-out. The endogenous extent of entry influences … downstream retail prices; Bertrand or local monopoly pricing or a mixed strategy equilibrium may emerge. Importantly, entry may …
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effect on broadband penetration, compared to those areas where the loops are not unbundled. LLU entry instead has a strongly …
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This paper questions whether competition can replace sector-specific regulation of mobile telecommunications. We show that the monopolistic outcome prevails independently of market concentration when access prices are determined in bilateral negotiations. A light-handed regulatory policy can...
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The first generation of genetically modified (GM) crop varieties sought to increase farmer profitability through cost reductions or higher yields. The next generation of GM food research is focusing also on breeding for attributes of interest to consumers, beginning with ‘golden rice’, which...
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We study the implications of ownership and its induced incentives on firm performance in the ‘New Economy’. Instead of traditional performance we use firm survival on the stock market as the performance indicator. Using a unique data set of all 341 firms listed on the Neuer Markt, the German...
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In the large literature on firm performance, economists have given little attention to entrepreneurs. We use deaths of more than 500 entrepreneurs as a source of exogenous variation, and ask whether this variation can explain shifts in firm performance. Using longitudinal data, we find large and...
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We develop a monopolistic competition model with two sectors and heterogeneous agents who self-select into entrepreneurship, depending on entrepreneurial ability. The effect of market size on the equilibrium share of entrepreneurs crucially hinges on properties of the lower-tier utility function...
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This paper documents that a process of industrial restructuring has been transforming the developed economies, where large corporations are accounting for less economic activity and small firms are accounting for a greatershare of economic activity. Not all countries, however, are experiencing...
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