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Exclusive dealing contracts between manufacturers and retailers force new entrants to set up their own costly dealer networks to enter the market. We ask whether such contracts may act as an entry barrier, and provide an empirical analysis of the European car market. We first estimate a demand...
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Europe. We find that (i) larger firms are less efficient than smaller firms, (ii) greater leverage contributes to corporate …
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Western Europe has an effect on within regional interpersonal inequality. Second, whether this potential relationship is …
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We study the contribution of health-related behaviors to the health-education gradient by distinguishing between short-run and long-run mediating effects: while in the former only current or lagged behaviors are taken into account, in the latter we consider the entire history of behaviors. We...
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Does fiscal consolidation lead to social unrest? Using cross-country evidence for the period 1919 to 2008, we examine the extent to which societies become unstable after budget cuts. The results show a clear correlation between fiscal retrenchment and instability. We test if the relationship...
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of the great depression in Europe and the delay of recovery as a failure to coordinate economic policies. Europe could …
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the US and Europe. Another popular view is that these differences are explained by long-standing European ‘culture’, but … the US and Europe. These policies do not seem to have increased employment, but they may have had a more society …
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This paper examines the economic rationale for concern about the falling rate of growth of Europe's population. It also … assembles demographic and economic time-series data for the countries of Eastern and Western Europe during the postwar period …
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This paper reviews the arguments for and against monetary unification in Europe, taking into account the recent shift …
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1500 and 1800 look similar to the stagnating southern, central and eastern parts of Europe rather than the developing … northwestern parts. In the advanced parts of India and China, grain wages were comparable to those in northwestern Europe, but … wages of northwestern Europe were not simply a monetary phenomenon, but reflected high productivity in the tradable sector …
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