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Does planning regulation protect independent retailers?

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

employment declines in independent stores they were meant to protect. The reason is that when large retail chains are prevented …

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Evaluating the effects of planning policies on the retail sector: or do town centre first policies deliver the goods?

Cheshire, Paul; Hilber, Christian A. L.; Kaplanis, Ioannis - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

(TFP) in the retailing industry by (i) restricting the total availability of land for retail, thereby increasing space … costs (ii) directly limiting store size and (iii) concentrating retail development on specific central locations. We use … unique store-specific data to estimate the impact of space on retail productivity and the specific effects of planning …

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A general framework for analysing endogenous trade divergences

Walsh, Patrick - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1991

This paper gives a general framework for analysing a trade divergence that runs across both the New International trade theory and the traditional analysis of export policy. The source of the trade divergence, the motive for intervention and the analytical framework is shown to be the same in...

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New media competition and access: the scarcity-abundance dialectic

Mansell, Robin - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999

It is often argued that constraints on access to new information and communication environments will disappear as services decline in price and as customers and producers engage in new market relationships. Following this line of argument, the relative scarcity of communication and information...

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In search of value-for-money in collective bargaining: an analytic-interactive mediation process

Schilling, Martin S.; Mulford, Matthew - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

In this paper we introduce an analytic-interactive mediation approach to facilitate conflict resolution in collective bargaining. Based on field observations of labor-management negotiations in the German railway industry, we develop an approach which combines human mediation with IT-based...

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A commentary on the research evidence regarding the effects of food promotion on children: prepared for the research department of the Office of Communications (OFCOM)

Livingstone, Sonia - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

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Strong-form efficiency with monopolistic insiders

Chau, Minh; Vayanos, Dimitri - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

We study market efficiency in an infinite-horizon model with a monopolistic insider. The insider can trade with a competitive market maker and noise traders, and observes privately the expected growth rate of asset dividends. In the absence of the insider, this information would be reflected in...

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Location choice

Van Wijnbergen, S.; Venables, Tony - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1993

Much of the excitement around the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has been generated by anticipations of a strongly foreign investment response. Nevertheless, the plethora of applied papers about the NAFTA have all either ignored DFI or kept it exogenous. In this paper we provide...

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Under threat: potential competition, litigation and the private value of patent protection

Lanjouw, Jean Olson - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1992

This paper investigates the effect of the threat and occurrence of patent litigation on the private value of patent protection. Potential challenges are introduced into a renewal model as a factor in patentee decisions as to whether a patent is worth maintaining. The model yields testable...

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On the home market effect: theory and empirical evidence

Trionfetti, Federico - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999

This paper addresses the question of how to discriminate between the H-O paradigm and the C-H-O paradigm of international trade. The test is based on the home-biased expenditure. The model predicts a positive relationshipp between a country''s share of world''s output (in any particular sector)...

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