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China is ranking first in cotton production for more than 20 years. The adoption of GM cotton, since 1997, through the …, all cotton sector stakeholders do recognize that there is a big issue of excessive competition from a great number of … competition. The case analysed is a good illustration of the shortfalls of unregulated competition. It is however ineffective to …
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This article aims at providing an empirical test in order to choose between two theories. The first theory is that gender discrimination in origin countries can be a push factor for women and therefore that a reduction in discrimination can reduce the flow of female migrants. The other theory is...
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This paper focuses on the interaction between gender discrimination and household decisions. It develops a model with endogenous fertility, endogenous labor supply and endogenous size of government spending. Family policies which concern childcare services are assumed to reduce the time that...
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This paper investigates the importance of ethnic homophily in the hiring discrimination process, and provides a novel test for statistical discrimination. Our evidence comes from a correspondence test performed in France, in which we use three different kinds of ethnic identification: French...
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The aim of this paper is to compare in an empirical way the male/female wage gap differential between the following two countries : France, an industrialized country where the disparities between sexes are outstandingly small, and Japan, where they are particularly large. It is also proposed to...
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interval of values of the spillover parameter such that the relationship between competition and growth is an inverted-U-shape. …
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is high, a single sender never discloses. Competition restores full disclosure only if some of the senders are … symmetric equilibria approach full disclosure as competition increases. …
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This paper shows that dominant firms may wish to encourage competition in vertically-related markets. It shows that …
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number of agents because competition reduces the agents' informational monopoly power. However, this environment also … tendency to choose more 'generous' (and more efficient) contract menus over time. We find that competition leads to a … substantially higher probability of trade, and that, overall, competition between agents generates the most efficient outcomes. …
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secondary market where independent remanufacturers enter the competition. An environmental regulation imposing a minimum level … regulation. However, if an environmental regulation is to be implemented, collusion should be repressed since competition …
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