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We formulate and estimate a structural model for travel demand, in which users have heterogeneous preferences and make their transport decisions considering the network congestion. A key component in the model is that users have incomplete information about the preferences of other users in the...
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Swedish census data and tax records reveal an astonishing wage compression; the Swedish skill premium fell by more than 30 percent between 1970 and 1990 while the U.S. skill premium, after an initial decline in the 1970s, rose by 8-10 percent. Since then both skill premia have increased by...
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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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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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to pay more for exclusivity, the higher the demand (the lower the cost), that is precisely when competition yields the …
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Starting in 1998, the electricity market in England and Wales will be opened up to full competition, and all consumers … transactions costs exceeding £100 million a year for the first five years. Relative to a counterfactual without competition, there …
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We assess the influence of competition and capital regulation on the stability of the banking system. We particularly … show that competition improves the monitoring incentives of better quality banks and deteriorates the incentives of lower … quality banks; and that precisely for those lower quality banks competition typically compromises the effectiveness of capital …
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; corporate governance; market structures and competition; and financial constraints. We conclude that private ownership and …
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An extensive empirical literature has documented the positive growth effects of equity market liberalization. However, this line of research ignores the impact of financial integration on a category of firms crucial for economic development, i.e. the small entrepreneurial firms. This paper aims...
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product market competition. This leads to more effective weeding out of the existing high-cost firms in the market. In this …
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