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I investigate whether the removal of the reserve clause in professional baseball has affected the competitive nature of the industry in the context of whether teams are actively attempting to monopolize in high- valued inputs. It is possible that a very few teams could purchase all of the best...
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operating in the short run under systematically varied concentration and capacity conditions. The pricing of electricity is …
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The concentration of spatial economic activities, especially in manufacturing industries has become an interesting … phenomenon to be analyzed. In manufacturing industries, spatial concentration is determined by wages, transportation cost, market … concentration has a relation with industrial specialization which based on industrial structure on that region. The objective of …
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job capacity, job concentration, and market power. Job capacity is measured by the ratio of potential job openings to … potential work offers, and job concentration is measured by the ratio of work suppliers to employers. For each experimental … behaviors over time. The main finding is that job capacity consistently trumps job concentration when it comes to predicting the …
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One explanation provided for the relatively high and increasingly stable spreads for moderate-sized IPOs ($20-$80 million) documented in Chen and Ritter (2000) is that issuing firms focus less on price and more on a combination of investment bank-differentiating factors (such as underwriter...
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participated in the convergence phenomenon, Ireland, also neutral but democratic, was not able to converge to the developed world …
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This paper introduces three measures of spatial dependence for use in the analysis of regional income distributions and their evolution. The first builds upon the notion of regional conditioning (Quah 1993), and is derived as a trace statistic from a modified Markov transition matrix. The...
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This empirical note uses publicly available Goskomstat data to investigate income growth and convergence across Russian … regions. Using data for 1992-2001, we find strong sigma divergence simultaneously with beta convergence. he results indicate …
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framework, namely, convergence, identifications of growth determinants and factors responsible of growth differences in the data …, the primary focus of this paper is on the last two. Since the use of econometrics was originally motivated by convergence …
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the long term growth rate and in the process of economic convergence between the states of Mexico, the present study … focused on the regional economic convergence process in Mexico, and the effects of economic openess. …
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