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This paper analyzes optimal procurement mechanisms in a setting where the procurement agency has incomplete information concerning the firms' cost functions and cares about quality as well as price. Low type firms are cheaper than high type firms in providing low quality but more expensive when...
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In this paper, we analyse employment and capital adjustments using a panel of plants from Colombia. We allow for nonlinear adjustment of employment to reflect not only adjustment costs of labour but also adjustment costs of capital, and vice-versa. Using data from the Annual Manufacturing...
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(deregulation) and improving contractual enforcement (legal reform). Deregulation fosters entry, thereby increasing the number of … deregulation, as it preserves incumbents' rents, while at the same time allowing the less efficient among them to transfer control …
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Product and labour market deregulation are fundamentally about reducing and redistributing rents, leading economic … players to adjust in turn to this new distribution. Thus, even if deregulation eventually proves beneficial, it comes with … market deregulation, we then use our results to study two specific issues. First, to shed light on macroeconomic evolutions …
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This paper analyzes the impact of deregulation and market integration policies on the structure of European banking …
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This Paper develops an argument explaining why retail prices may rise in response to the deregulation of opening hours …
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This paper evaluates the effects of liberalizing access to the space sector, as currently envisaged by the EC Commission. We undertake an econometric evaluation of the degree of scale economies in satellite operations and calibrate a Cournot model of competition in which the effect of...
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policy shocks such as deregulation. More generally, we demonstrate that product switching gives rise to a richer set of …
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The paper develops a numerical simulation model to assess the possible consequences of competition on inter-Scandinavian air routes, using the Oslo-Stockholm route as a case. In the model, demand for air transportation depends on the price and frequency, reflecting consumer preferences for...
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compare the welfare effects of upstream versus downstream deregulation policies and show that the impact of deregulation may …
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