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The Relationship between Firm Births and Job Creation

Stel, André van; Storey, David - Tinbergen Institute - 2002

This paper examines the relationship between firm births and job creation in Great Britain. We use a new data set for 60 British regions, covering the whole of Great Britain, between 1980 and 1998. The central theme of the paper is that, with the exception of a recent paper by Audretsch and...

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Lobbying on Entry

Perotti, Enrico; Volpin, Paolo - Tinbergen Institute - 2004

entry and financial development. In- cumbents seek a low level of effective investor protection to prevent potential … the higher rents earned with less competition. Entry and investor protection improve when wealth distribu- tion becomes … 38 countries we find that greater accountability is associated with higher entry in sectors that are more dependent on …

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Microfoundations

Janssen, Maarten C.W. - Tinbergen Institute - 2006

This paper gives an overview and evaluates the literature on Microfoundations.<P>

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Pricing, Consumer Search and the Size of Internet Markets

Janssen, Maarten C.W.; Moraga, José Luis - Tinbergen Institute - 2000

Despite the mixed empirical evidence, many economists still hold to the view that Internet will promote competition between firms, thereby lowering prices and increasing economic welfare. This paper presents a search model that provides a different view. We analyze the market for a homogeneous...

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Search Costs, Demand-Side Economies and the Incentives to merge under Bertrand Competition

Moraga-Gonzalez, Jose L.; Petrikaite, Vaiva - Tinbergen Institute - 2012

This paper studies the incentives to merge in a Bertrand competition model where firms sell differentiated

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Minimum Price Guarantees In a Consumer Search Model

Janssen, Maarten; Parakhonyak, Alexei - Tinbergen Institute - 2009

This paper is the first to examine the effect of minimum price guarantees

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Asymmetric Price Responses of Gasoline Stations: Evidence for Heterogeneity of Retailers

Faber, Riemer P. - Tinbergen Institute - 2009

This paper studies asymmetric price responses of individual firms, via daily retail prices of almost all gasoline stations in the Netherlands and suggested prices of the five largest oil companies over more than two years. I find that 38% of the stations respond asymmetrically to changes in the...

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On Mergers in Consumer Search Markets

Janssen, Maarten C.W.; Moraga-González, José Luis - Tinbergen Institute - 2007

We study mergers in a market where <I>N</I> firms sell a homogeneous good and consumers search sequentially to discover prices. The main motivation for such an analysis is that mergers generally affect market prices and thereby, in a search environment, the search behavior of consumers. Endogenous...</i>

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Competing Transport Networks

Leij, Marco J. van der - Tinbergen Institute - 2003

In a circular city model, I consider network design and pricing decisions for a single fast transport connection that faces competition from a slower but better accessible transport mode. To access the fast transport network individuals have to make complementary trips by slow mode. This fact...

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Consumer Search and Oligopolistic Pricing: An Empirical Investigation

Janssen, Maarten C.W.; Moraga-González, José Luis; … - Tinbergen Institute - 2004

This paper presents an empirical examination of oligopoly pricing and consumer search. The theoretical model allows for sequential and non-sequential search and using the theoretical restrictions firm and consumer behavior impose on the data we study the empirical validity of the models. Two...

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