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Widespread concern over real effects of EMU is consistent with new Keynesian approaches to macroeconomic fluctuations, but more difficult to reconcile with a real business cycle (RBC) paradigm. Using a model with frictions as a point of departure, I argue that nominal price rigidity in Europe is...
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Competition in some markets is a contest. This paper studies the merger incentives in such markets. Merger can be …
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(geno-) types as in evolutionary biology and game theory. Survival in inter- and intraspecies competition together with … competition and analyze the conditions for species survival. The second aspect refers to success in intraspecies competition of …
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leadership. Our data, however, does not confirm the theory. While Stackelberg equilibria are extremely rare we often observe …
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We report on an experiment designed to compare Stackelberg and Cournot duopoly markets with quantity competition. For …
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Most models of labor markets and (un)employment neglect how competition among firms or sectors of the economy affects … by price competition. A special advantage of such a framework is that one can distinguish two kinds of employment effects …
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A small macroeconomic model is constructed to study the transmission of the monetary policy conducted by the Deutsche Bundesbank (DBB) since the middle of the 1970s. For this purpose quarterly, seasonally unadjusted data for the period from 1975 to 1998 are used, that is, the period until the...
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After a temporary period of a fixed exchange rate regime pegging the Polish zloty to the U.S. dollar, Poland established a preannounced crawling peg regime on October 15, 1991. In this system the zloty is tied to a currency basket and devalued with a preannounced monthly rate (rate of crawl). If...
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