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Imperfect Competition in Selection Markets
Mahoney, Neale; Weyl, E. Glen - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
in selection markets that parameterizes the degree of both market power and selection and use graphical price …
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Highway to Success: The Impact of the Golden Quadrilateral Project for the Location and Performance of Indian Manufacturing
Ghani, Ejaz; Goswami, Arti Grover; Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
entry rates and increases in plant productivity. These results are not present for districts located on another major …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950745
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Political Reservations and Women's Entrepreneurship in India
Ghani, Ejaz; Kerr, William R.; O'Connell, Stephen D. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
We quantify the link between the timing of state-level implementations of political reservations for women in India with the role of women in India's manufacturing sector. While overall employment of women in manufacturing does not increase after the reforms, we find significant evidence that...
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Accounting for Expectational and Structural Error in Binary Choice Problems: A Moment Inequality Approach
Dickstein, Michael J.; Morales, Eduardo - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Many economic decisions involve a binary choice - for example, when consumers decide to purchase a good or when firms decide to enter a new market. In such settings, agents' choices often depend on imperfect expectations of the future payoffs from their decision (expectational error) as well as...
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The Bidder Exclusion Effect
Coey, Dominic; Larsen, Bradley; Sweeney, Kane - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
We introduce a simple and robust approach to answering two key questions in empirical auction analysis: discriminating between models of entry and quantifying the revenue gains from improving auction design. The approach builds on Bulow and Klemperer (1996), connecting their theoretical results...
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Multi-Product Firms and Product Quality
Manova, Kalina; Zhang, Zhiwei - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
This paper proposes that quality differentiation is an important feature of the operations of multi-product firms. We develop a model in which manufacturers vary product quality across their product range by using inputs of different quality levels. Firms' core competency is in varieties of...
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The Industrial Organization of Health Care Markets
Gaynor, Martin; Ho, Kate; Town, Robert - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
on health care markets focusing on the impact of competition on price, quality and treatment decisions for health care …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951264
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The Smart Grid, Entry, and Imperfect Competition in Electricity Markets
Allcott, Hunt - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
Most US consumers are charged a near-constant retail price for electricity, despite substantial hourly variation in the … wholesale market price. The Smart Grid is a set of emerging technologies that, among other effects, will facilitate "real …-time pricing" for electricity and increase price elasticity of demand. This paper simulates the effects of this increased demand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271447
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Deregulation, Misallocation, and Size: Evidence from India
Alfaro, Laura; Chari, Anusha - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
This paper examines the impact of the deregulation of compulsory industrial licensing in India on firm-size dynamics and the reallocation of resources within industries over time. Following deregulation, we find that the extent of resource misallocation declines and a considerable thickening of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276104
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Production Networks, Geography and Firm Performance
Bernard, Andrew B.; Moxnes, Andreas; Saito, Yukiko U. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
firm's marginal production costs. We test the theory by exploiting the opening of a high-speed (Shinkansen) train line in …
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