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Total Factor Productivity and Technical Efficiency of Indian Manufacturing: The Role of Infrastructure and Information & Communication Technology
Mitra, Arup; Sharma, Chandan; Veganzones, Marie-Ange - HAL - 2011
competition, are also found to be more sensitive to infrastructure endowment. This result can be extended to the Chemical industry …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009644165
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Some comparative economics of the organization of sports: Competition and regulation in north American vs. European professional team sports leagues
Andreff, Wladimir - HAL - 2011
The paper presents the differences between the design of a closed and an open team sports league. Then it compares the theoretical models of a closed league with profit maximizing clubs and an open league with win maximizing clubs. Both models are now outdated by a Nash equilibrium model which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010635114
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Jules Dupuit and the railroads: what is the role of the State?
Poinsot, Philippe - HAL - 2012
between competition as an ideal and the feasibility of competition in the railroad sector; this distinction is implicit in … Dupuit's work, but it helps us to grasp that, in his opinion, unlimited competition is not possible in the railroads and that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010575558
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State and market interaction: cotton variety and seed market development in China
Fok, Michel; Xu, Naiyin - HAL - 2008
, all cotton sector stakeholders do recognize that there is a big issue of excessive competition from a great number of … nevertheless will remain a short term one if no regulation is provided to prevent the market development from excessive and unfair … competition. The case analysed is a good illustration of the shortfalls of unregulated competition. It is however ineffective to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008791670
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Market Share, R&D Cooperation, and EU Competition Policy
Rubble, Richard; Versaevel, Bruno - HAL - 2009
Current EU policy exempts horizontal R&D agreements from antitrust con- cerns when the combined market shares of participants are low enough. This paper argues that existing theory does not support limiting the exemption to low market shares. This is done by introducing a set of non-innovating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008791808
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Estimación de frontera de producción para el sector de agua y saneamiento en América Latina
Ferro, Gustavo; Paula, Covelli; Romero, Carlos A. - HAL - 2010
más limitados. En el primero (yardstick competition), utiliza las estimaciones para discutir tarifa y metas de desempeño … estándares piso de desempeño y emular pares de realidades cercanas, un intermedio (sunshine competition) tiene como objetivo …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008793416
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When Does a Developing Country Use New Technologies?
Bruno, Olivier; Van, Cuong Le; Masquin, Benoît - HAL - 2009
We develop a model of optimal pattern of economic development that is first rooted in physical capital accumulation and then in technical progress. We study an economy where capital accumulation and innovative activity take place within a two sector model. The first sector produces a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010750459
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Why capital (physical and human) doesn't move from rich to poor countries
Darreau, Philippe; Pigalle, François - HAL - 2012
Capital (physical and human) doesn't flow from rich to poor countries. We show that in order to solve these twin paradoxes, assumption of externality of physical capital is better than assumption of externality of human capital.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010898504
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Technological interdependence between south american countries : a spatial panel data growth model
Guevara, Carolina; Autant-Bernard, Corinne - HAL - 2013
This study examines how the dissemination of research and development (R&D) and technology affected economic performance in different South American countries from 1990 to 2010. The objective is to understand the relationship between countries in the process of international technology...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010632949
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Heterogeneity of total factor productivity across Latin American countries : evidence from manufacturing firms
Kapp, Daniel; Sánchez, Alan - HAL - 2012
We use a firm production function approach to generate estimates of total factor productivity (TFP) and labor productivity in the manufacturing sector for a group of Latin American countries. We exploit these estimates to study the relative position of countries within this sector and to explore...
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