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How does market power influence profitability? Prior research gives no exact answer. However, theory indicates that the relationship is positive. The aim of this paper is to identify whether and how competition influences profitability in the Ukrainian transition economy. Current study employs...
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This paper results from the research in the framework of the project "Market developments under transition (applied to the petrol and sugar industries)" and its policy implications. A general definition of the problem, the hypothesis and the research methodology are presented in the...
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Belief that competition is beneficial in general and for productive efficiency in particular is likely to root in competition's well established and rigorously proved positive relation to the optimal allocation of economic resources. This paper looking at the production side of the economy...
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This paper uses a classic, overlapping generation model to analyze the optimal transition of the Russian economy from a PAYG pension system to a funded pension system. The transition is associated with the accumulation of social capital gained by increased contributions to the pension system....
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This paper attempts to explain a large premium paid on common (voting) shares relative to preferred (non-voting) shares in the Russian stock market. Empirical analysis focuses on two main explanations relating the premium either to the voting right attached to common shares or to differences in...
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The problem of poverty and inequality measurement in contemporary Russian society is considered within the framework of the general problem of social tension reduction via efficient organization of the social assistance system. We argue that features specific to Russian transition stipulate that...
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Factors impacting the initiation and termination of smoking, using Cox's proportional hazard model as the econometric tool, on the basis of RLMS and Goskomstat data on tobacco prices, are being investigated in this paper. The model to explain the amount of consumed cigarettes and the composite...
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population. This paper examines the causes of inequality growth in Russia during transition. Using RLMS data author tries to …
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The paper documents the changes in the size of the wage distribution in Russia over the period 1994–2003. Developments …
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This paper studies different auctions of supply functions in a local market and a simple network market of a homogeneous good with two nodes and a fixed transmission loss per unit of the good. We study problems of existence, uniqueness and computation of Nash equilibria for these models. We also...
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