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The article evaluates crime trends in south border American and Mexican sister cities using panel data analysis. The region offers a unique assessment opportunity since cities are characterized by shared cultural and historical legacies, institutional heterogeneity, and disparate crime outcomes....
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The paper investigates whether and how performance of regional commercial courts has affected external credit of Russian enterprises between 1995 and 2002. The results show that more reliable courts lead to higher bank lending to firms. This occurs predominantly through expansion of the number...
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more lenient competition policy. …
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The ''portfolio effect theory'' developed by the European Commission in merger control is at the center of a fierce international row with the US authorities who believe that this theory has no economic foundations. This paper aims to provide a counter-argument and shows that full-line forcing...
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depends on the relative competition profit. For medium values of the latter, the foreign country as well as the firms gain and …
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reduces activities in the R&D sector. On the other hand, the enhanced competition for the equipment improves efficiency in the …
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This paper considers the integration of competition policy and innovation policy in the context of R&D cooperation. An …&D in both regimes. The strength of these incentives is related to the degree of product market competition. We show that … there is a clear relationship between the degree of competition in the product market and the relative performance of firms …
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In this study, the interaction between the competition-cooperation nexus and regulation in retail payment systems is …
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When the home country introduces a patent law after the winner of the patent race is known the country's welfare may rise only if the domestic firm wins. If the home country decides before the patent race ends, the welfare may be increased when the probability that the domestic firm wins is...
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On 28 August 1998 the Treasurer referred the impact of competition policy reforms on rural an regional Australia for … ongoing) of the competition policy and related reforms introduced by the Commonwealth, State, Territory and local governments … under the three intergovernmental agreements signed in April 1995 — the Competition Principles Agreement, the Conduct Code …
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