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Information costs, networks and intermediation in international trade

Petropoulou, Dimitra - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

This paper presents a pairwise matching model with two-sided information asymmetry to analyse the impact of information costs on endogenous network building and matching by information intermediaries. The framework innovates by examining the role of information costs on incentives for trade...

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Competing for contacts: network competition, trade intermediation and fragmented duopoly

Petropoulou, Dimitra - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

suggests that network competition between information intermediaries has a distinctive market structure, where intermediaries … Nash equilibrium. Finally, competition is affected by the technology of network development. The analysis shows that either …

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From Russia with love: the impact of relocated firms on incumbent survival

Falck, Oliver; Guenther, Christina; Heblich, Stephan; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

effects are due to increased competition for local resources. …

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Does competition solve the hold-up problem?

Felli, Leonardo; Roberts, Kevin - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001

competition for matches may solve hold-up and coordination problems generated by the absence of complete contingent contracts. In … particular, this paper shows that when matching is assortative and sellers’ investments precede market competition then … coordination failures. Different types of efficiency arise when buyers undertake investment before market competition. These …

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Noise and competition in strategic oligopoly

Dridi, Ramdan; Germain, Laurent - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

Focusing on homogeneous beliefs, we can distinguish two commonly shared ideas that, i) the competition between informed … market, i) the informativeness of prices increases with the degree of competition and, ii) the aggregate and individual …

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The remains of regulation: airlines' profits after liberalization

Marin, Pedro L. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1995

This paper develops an empirical model of entry to analyze the effect of previous regulation on European airlines? post-liberalization profits. The author distinguishes between European flag carriers, which are hightly regulated at the beginning of the eighties, and independent airlines. It is...

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Productivity differences in the airline industry: partial deregulation versus short-run protection

Marin, Pedro L. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1995

The paper specifies and estimates a production function for the airline industry, identifying firms' network characteristics and efficiency as the main determinants of their productivity. The application of this analysis to the European market shows that productivity differences among flag...

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Family-friendly working: what a performance! An analysis of the relationship between the availability of family-friendly policies and establishment performance

Gray, Helen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

This paper uses the Management and Employee Questionnaires from the 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey (WERS98) to consider whether the performance of workplaces which offer a range of family-friendly policies are superior to that of workplaces without such practices. It is found that in...

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Does planning regulation protect independent retailers?

Sadun, Raffaella - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

Entry regulations against big-box retailers have been introduced in many countries to protect smaller independent stores. Using a new dataset from the UK, I show that in fact these entry regulations have been associated with greater employment declines in independent stores they were meant to...

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Geographic concentration and the temporal scope of agglomeration economics: an index decomposition

Wren, Colin - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

The paper decomposes a geographical concentration index to examine the temporal scope of a spillover, which is the period of time over which one firm’s activity directly affects the location of other firms’ activities. Natural advantages are fixed over reasonably long time periods, but if...

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