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Vildosola, Luis - EconWPA - 1998

Theoretical study identifying one modality with conditions necesary for the financial stabilization of an inherently unstable system; and 5040 other unstable dynamic modes. It draws on knowledge made available by the academic field of Control Engineering.

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Competition Law in Central and Eastern Europe: Five Years Later

EconWPA; U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division - 2001

The first generaation of competition laws in Central and Eastern Europe -- enacted in 1990 and 1991 in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, and Russia -- have undergone significant amendments following their earliest enforcement period. This paper uses an analytical framework previously used to...

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Some Critical Provisions in the Antimonopoly Laws of Central and Eastern Europe

Pittman, Russell - EconWPA - 2001

Antimonopoly laws must contain effective provisions for the attack of exclusionary behavior by firms with market power while at the same time not attacking procompetitive behavior by entrants or incumbents. This paper suggests seven textual criteria by which a new law may be evaluated in its...

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El Aprendizaje, el Conocimiento y la Información como Regulación Financiera

Porras, Author Enrique R. González - EconWPA - 2003

La regulación si bien ha sido conceptualizada como las acciones ejercidas por agentes o entes ajenos a la actividad económica, para conseguir o cumplir una regla regulatoria. El nuevo rol promotor de los entes regulatorios, así como el poder de la información que pudieran poseer los...

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Free-Agency and the Competitiveness of Major-League Baseball

II, Craig A. Depken - EconWPA - 1996

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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Market Power and Efficiency in a Computational Electricity Market with Discriminatory Double-Auction Pricing

Nicolaisen, James; Petrov, Valentin; Tesfatsion, Leigh - EconWPA - 2000

operating in the short run under systematically varied concentration and capacity conditions. The pricing of electricity is …

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Specialization and Geographic Concentration of East Java Manufacturing Industries

Landiyanto, Erlangga Agustino; Pradana, Anindita; … - EconWPA - 2005

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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Structure, Behavior, and Market Power in an Evolutionary Labor Market with Adaptive Search

Tesfatsion, Leigh - EconWPA - 2000

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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To what extent are investment bank-differentiating factors relevant for firms floating moderate-sized IPOs?

Kulkarni, Kedar S.; Sabarwal, Tarun - EconWPA - 2004

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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The market for cocoa powder

Kox, Henk. L.M. - EconWPA - 2004

The paper analyses the forces that shape demand and supply processes in the market for cocoa powder. A brief statistical summary is given of the main trends in international demand and production, and the spatial shifts in cocoa processing. Ample attention is given to the role of technology...

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