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Bank Competition and Enterprise restructuring in Transition Economies
Schnitzer, Monika - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
We investigate how bank competition affects the efficiency of credit allocation, using a model of spatial competition … loans compared to the social optimum. Finally, we analyse how bank competition affects the firms' restructuring effort. We …
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Entrepreneurial innovations and taxation
Haufler, Andreas; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
leading to more competition in the product market. …
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Participation Games: Market Entry, Coordination and the Beautiful Blonde
Anderson, Simon P; Engers, Maxim - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
We find the Nash equilibria for monotone n-player symmetric games where each player chooses whether to participate. Examples include market entry games, coordination games, and the bar-room game depicted in the movie 'A Beautiful Mind'. The symmetric Nash equilibrium involves excessive...
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The Deep Pocket Effect of Internal Capital Markets
Boutin, Xavier; Cestone, Giacinta; Fumagalli, Chiara; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
This paper provides evidence that incumbents' access to group deep pockets has a negative impact on entry in product markets. Relying on a unique French data set on business groups, the paper presents three major findings. First, consistent with theoretical predictions, the amount of financial...
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The European UMTS/IMT-2000 Licence Auctions
Jehiel, Philippe; Moldovanu, Benny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
Europe has taken the global lead in the issuance of third generation (3G) licences for mobile telecommunications according to the UMTS/IMT-2000 family of standards. We survey the recent European UMTS licence auctions and compare their outcomes with the predictions of a simple auction model that...
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Industrial Policy and Competition
Aghion, Philippe; Dewatripont, Mathias; Du, Liqun; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
enterprises for the period 1998 through 2007 to test for complementarity between competition and industrial policy. A main … competition-friendly and therefore more growth-enhancing. …
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Add-on Pricing, Naive Consumers, and the Hidden Welfare Costs of Education
Kosfeld, Michael; Schüwer, Ulrich - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Previous research shows that firms shroud high add-on prices in competitive markets with naive consumers leading to inefficiency. We analyze the effects of regulatory intervention via educating naive consumers on equilibrium prices and welfare. Our model allows firms to shroud, unshroud, or...
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The Evolution of Markets and the Revolution of Industry: A Quantitative Model of England's Development, 1300-2000
Desmet, Klaus; Parente, Stephen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
critical size, and competition to reach a critical level of intensity. By allowing an economy to produce a greater variety of … theory in a dynamic general equilibrium model calibrated to England's long-run development and explore how various factors …
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Foreign Currency Borrowing by Small Firms
Brown, Martin; Ongena, Steven; Yesin, Pinar - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
We examine the firm- and country-level determinants of the currency denomination of small business loans. We first model the choice of loan currency in a framework which features a trade-off between lower cost of debt and the risk of firm-level distress costs, and also incorporates the impact of...
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The Impact of Competition on Management Quality: Evidence from Public Hospitals
Bloom, Nicholas; Propper, Carol; Seiler, Stephan; Van … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
In this paper we examine the causal impact of competition on management quality. We analyze the hospital sector where … geographic proximity is a key determinant of competition, and English public hospitals where political competition can be used to … survival rates from emergency heart attack admissions (AMI). More importantly, we find that higher competition (as indicated by …
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