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In traditional Keynesian and neoclassical models, the transmission of product demand changes to the labour market …
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This paper is a reflective survey of past and recent econometric work on the growth of firms. Most of this work suggests that firm size follows a random walk; i.e. that corporate growth rates are random. The survey documents this, and shows what a strong result this is by contrasting it with...
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advantage of the unique regulatory environment, we propose a structural model of market power and test to what degree … duopolistic competition leads to competitive market outcomes. We find that cellular prices are significantly above competitive, as … terms of various market and organizational structures that might explain competitive behaviour. We find that cross …
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This paper studies the impact that capital market imperfections have on the natural selection of the most efficient …
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I revisit the relation between aftermarket power and basic market competition. I consider an infinite period model with …
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, our paper distinguishes between domestic market niches and competition at the international level, by specifying a product … market power is due to price collusion. In fact, firms compete significantly more than a standard Nash game would suggest. On … cartel pricing, airline prices in Europe might come down more gradually as efficiency increases and market niches are …
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We study the determinants of the diffusion of mobile telecommunications services in the European Union in a logistic model of technology diffusion. We find that the transition from the analogue to the digital technology during the early nineties, and the corresponding increase in spectrum...
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We utilize a unique database from a large legal services provider to examine how service quality responds to the firm's available capacity and workload, and to the nature of the firm-client relationship. We develop empirical measures of both the (internal) level of resources available to the...
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We study contestability in non-profit markets where non-commercial providers supply a homogeneous collective good or service through increasing-returns-to-scale technologies. Unlike in the case of for-profit markets, in the non-profit case the absence of price-based sales contracts between...
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This paper examines the extent to which the destination of exports matters for the input prices paid by firms, using detailed customs and firm-product-level data from Portugal. We use exchange-rate movements as a source of variation in export destinations and find that exporting to richer...
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