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vertical relations, a manufacturers merger is harmful to consumers and welfare. …
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Two types of agents interact on a pre-existing free platform. Agents value positively the presence of agents of the other type but may value negatively the presence of agents of their own type. We ask whether a new platform can find fees and subsidies so as to divert agents from the existing...
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The New Trade Theory predicts that international trade lowers prices for consumers and expands the choices available to them. This study shows that both predictions may no longer hold once adjustments in the retail sector are taken into account. I present a new model of retailing in general...
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distortionary market power above full information levels and welfare losses which can be counteracted by subsidies. As the market … welfare losses is 1/ n2 . The results extend to demand schedule competition and a range of applications in product and …
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A Bayesian supply function equilibrium is characterized in a market where firms have private information about their uncertain costs. It is found that with supply function competition, and in contrast to Bayesian Cournot competition, competitiveness is affected by the parameters of the...
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This paper elaborates on the recent race to sequence the human genome. Starting from the debate on public vs. private research arising from the genome case, the paper shows that in some fundamental research areas, where knowledge externalities play an important role, market and non-market...
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We prove that the change in welfare of a representative consumer is summarized by the current and expected future … while taking prices parametrically. This result justifies TFP as the right summary measure of welfare (even in situations … where it does not properly measure technology) and makes it possible to calculate the contributions of disaggregated units …
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Keeping up with rapid technological change necessitates constant innovation. Successful innovation depends on both … implement them. Both of these knowledge-based elements of innovation can be attained through moderate labor force turnover in … innovation within a multivariate regression framework. However, when instrumenting training by the existence of a union …
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probit model with self-selection. Our estimation results highlight the fact that firms’ relatedness in technology and product …
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enforcement of IPR yields a higher level of innovation and global welfare only if the developing country does not innovate. A … the one hand, free-riding on rich countries technology reduces their investment cost in R&D. On the other hand, firm that … own innovation. The analysis predicts that the willingness to enforce IPR is U-shaped in a country GDP: small …
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