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strategy on large databases of historical housing transactions in London, and show that economic and political risk in Southern … Europe, China, the Middle East, Russia, and South Asia is an important factor in explaining the dynamics of London house …
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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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of local monopoly power of financial intermediaries. The economy that implements this form of deregulation experiences …
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We survey three distinct types of financial crises which took place in the 1990s and the 2000s: 1) The credit implosion leading to severe banking crisis in Japan; 2) The foreign reserves’ meltdown triggered by foreign hot money flight from frothy economies with fixed exchange rate regimes of...
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Theoretical IO models of horizontal mergers and acquisitions make the critical assumption of efficiency gains. Without efficiency gains, these models predict either that mergers are not profitable or that mergers are welfare reducing. A problem here is the empirical observation that on average...
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profits. Instead of such an equilibrium, a deregulation race is likely to emerge in which all but the last country repeal … their antitrust laws. The deregulation race results in a chain of Stackelberg leadership positions taken over by national …
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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 develops an argument explaining why retail prices may rise in response to the deregulation of opening hours …
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