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Spaced Out Monopolies: Theory and Empirics of Alternating Product Releases

Zillante, Arthur - EconWPA - 2005

An oft-neglected pattern of behavior occurs when firms time the release of their products so that they are not released on the same date. The practice is potentially collusive, so there may be legitimate antitrust concerns. This paper presents a model of this behavior, the alternating periods...

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Instrumental Variable Estimation for Duration Data: A Reappraisal of the Illinois Reemployment Bonus Experiment

Bijwaard, G.E. - EconWPA - 2002

We propose an Instrumental Variable method for Generalised Accelerated Failure Time (GAFT) models that adjust for possible endogeneity of the intervention of interest, without suffering the problems of the intention-to-treat method. We develop an estimatiom procedure that collapses to the linear...

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Leaving teaching in the French-Speaking Community of Belgium: a duration analysis

Vincent, Vandenberghe - EconWPA - 2003

This paper aims at a better understanding of the factors influencing the decision of young graduates who entered teaching to stay in that profession. The field of research covers secondary education teachers in the French-Speaking Community of Belgium. The data analysed comes from an...

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Empirical Evidence on the Duration of Bank Relationships

Ongena, Steven; Smith, David C. - EconWPA - 1997

We present evidence on the duration of firm-bank relationships using a unique panel data set of connections between Oslo Stock Exchange-listed firms and their banks for the period 1979-1994. We focus on the determinants of the duration of a relationship and the causes for ending an existing bank...

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Why the Japanese Taxpayer Always Loses

Ramseyer, J. Mark; Rasmusen, Eric - EconWPA - 1999

The tax office wins most cases in Japan. We think about why this might be. We find that although judges who rule in …

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Why Is the Japanese Conviction Rate So High?

Ramseyer, J. Mark; Rasmusen, Eric - EconWPA - 1999

Conviction rates in Japan exceed 99 percent -- why? On the one hand, because Japanese prosecutors are badly …

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Exchange Rate Pass-Through to Manufactured Import Prices: The Case of Japan

Wickremasinghe, Guneratne Banda; Silvapulle, Param - EconWPA - 2004

This paper examines the exchange rate pass-through to yen based manufactured import prices of Japan using asymmetric … shown that the recession in Japan in the 1990s has significantly affected the exchange rate passthrough relationship …

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Monitoring Banking Sector Fragility

Kibritcioglu, Aykut - EconWPA - 2002

In the financial crisis literature, it is usually argued that, contrary to the case of currency crises, building a time series index to identify banking crisis episodes is highly difficult, particularly because of the lack of reliable data on banking sector variables (non-performing loans,...

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Factor Endowments, Trade Direction, and Growth Performances of the Americas and East Asia in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Lai, Hongyi Harry - EconWPA - 1997

-endowment based trade and economic ties with the secondary advanced economy (first the U.S. and then Japan) played important roles in … the pre-WWII growth of Japan, Southeast Asia's growth in the 1970s and the 1980s, and its economic crisis in the mid-1990s. …

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A Comprehensive Analysis of Economic Community in East Asia: Japan's Leadership in the Regional Development on both Economic and Financial Sides

Kitagawa, Masaomi - EconWPA - 2005

common market among ASEAN, China, South Korea, and Japan by establishing a free trade area covering the entire region. As the … two major countries in the region, in the arrangement, China and Japan would have centered roles in promoting economic … cooperation in East Asia. However, it is practically impossible to decide either China or Japan is capable of taking the …

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