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Market Structure, Trade Liberalization and the GATS

Francois, Joseph; Wooton, Ian - Tinbergen Instituut - 2000

In this paper we examine the interaction between the different modesof market access commitments inservices (cross-border and establishment) market structure, andregulation. In this context, we focus on theimpact of improved domestic market access for a foreign serviceprovider on a domestic...

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Market Structure in Services and Market Access in Goods

Francois, Joseph; Wooton, Ian - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004

We examine interaction between trade in goods and market power in domestic trade and distribution, developing a model that highlights this interaction. Theory points to an expected linkage between service sector competition and goods trade, one supported by econometrics involving import patterns...

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Political Influence in a New Antidumping Regime: Evidence from Mexico

Francois, Joseph F.; Niels, Gunnar - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004

We examine the role of political factors in Mexico’s antidumping regime, considering both the characteristics of target … countries subject to antidumping duties and industry-specific factors for sectors receiving protection. Our results are broadly … political benefits of providing protection. They are also in line with the existing empirical literature on antidumping, which …

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Business Cycles, the Current Account, and Administered Protection in Mexico

Francois, Joseph; Niels, Gunnar - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003

Antidumping actions in the United States and EU are knownto be linked to macroeconomic conditions. In part, this is …

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Market Structure and the Pricing of New Products: A Nested Logit Approach with Asymmetric Firms

Bleker, Sylvia; Behrens, Christiaan; Koster, Paul; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

This article investigates competition in a market with an emerging technology using a discrete choice model to analyze demand and welfare. We focus on industry structure and investigate the impact of different market structures on demand for the new technology and on welfare. The car market...

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Modelling Entrepreneurship

Bosma, Niels; Wit, Gerrit de; Carree, Martin - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003

Two approaches can be distinguished with respect to modelling entrepreneurship: (i) the approachfocusing on the net development of the number of entrepreneurs in an equilibrium framework and (ii)the approach focusing on the entries and exits of entrepreneurs. In this paper we unify these...

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Pivotal Suppliers and Market Power in Experimental Supply Function Competition

Brandts, Jordi; Reynolds, Stanley S.; Schram, Arthur - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

This discussion paper resulted in a publication in the Economic Journal (2014). Volume 124, pages 887-916. In the process of regulatory reform in the electric power industry, the mitigation of market power is one of the basic problems regulators have to deal with. We use experimental data to...

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Gibrat's Law and the Firm Size / Firm Growth Relationship in Italian Services

Piergiovanni, R.; Santarelli, E.; Klomp, L.; Thurik, A.R. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002

Several surveys on intra-industry dynamics have recently reached the conclusion from a large body of evidence that Gibrat's Law does not hold, i.e., the main finding is that firm growth decreases with firm size. However, almost all of these studies have been based on manufacturing. In this paper...

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Impeded Industrial Restructuring: The Growth Penalty

Audretsch, D.B.; Carree, M.A.; Stel, A.J. van; Thurik, A.R. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2000

This paper documents that a process of industrial restructuring has been transforming the developed economies, where large corporations are accounting for less economic activity and small firms are accounting for a greatershare of economic activity. Not all countries, however, are experiencing...

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Deterministic versus Random Utility: Implied Patterns of Vertical Product Differentiation in a Multi-Product Monopoly

Behrens, Christiaan; Lijesen, Mark; Pels, Eric; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

In this article we study patterns of vertical product differentiation in a multi-product monopoly using a random utility model. Prior research shows that applying such a model in a multi-product setting implies symmetric patterns of product differentiation in which all product variants of a...

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