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This Paper presents a survey of the literature on trade liberalization and globalization. The questions are why trade … allows for protectionist policies, and why there is opposition to the globalization of markets that has occurred as the …
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This study examines the impact of Poland’s trade liberalization 1994-2001 on the industry wage structure. The liberalization was undertaken in preparation for Poland’s accession to the European Union and was more pronounced in industries with larger shares of unskilled labour. Our analysis...
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Recent theoretical work predicts that an important margin of adjustment to deregulation or trade reforms is the … detailed firm-level data from India, we provide the first evidence on the patterns of multi-product firm production in a large …-section, multi-product firms in India look remarkably similar to their U.S. counterparts, confirming the predictions of recent …
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the context of India's 1991 tariff reforms. Overall, in the 1990s, rural India experienced a dramatic increase in … imply that roughly half of India's rise in schooling and a third of the fall in child labor during the 1990s can be …
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India was a major player in the world export market for textiles in the early 18th century, but by the middle of the 19 … some decline, and India underwent secular de-industrialization as a consequence. While India produced about 25% of world … about the relative role played by domestic and foreign forces in India’s de-industrialization. The construction of new …
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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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We assess how banking competition will be affected by the process of deregulation and integration in European financial …
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What determines the enforcement of deregulation reform of business activities? What are the outcomes of deregulation … variation. 2) The enforcement of deregulation reform was better in regions with a transparent government, low corruption, better … substantial positive effect of deregulation on net entry and small business employment and no effect on pollution and public …
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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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