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CORPORATE CREDIT AND MONETARY POLICY:THE IMPACT OF FIRM-SPECIFICCHARACTERISTICS ON FINANCIAL STRUCTURE

Cihan, Yalcin; Bougheas, Spiros; Mizen, Paul - University <Nottingham> / Department of Economics - 2002

This paper examines the impact of monetary policy on UK firms’ access to bank and market finance whenallowance is made for differences in firm-specific characteristics. A theoretical model determines the cut-off valuesfor project profitability that would allow firms to access bank or market...

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TIME CONSISTENCY AND INVESTMENTINCENTIVES IN ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY

Dijkstra, Bouwe R. - University <Nottingham> / Department of Economics - 2002

We study environmental policy for a polluting firmthat can invest in extracapacity. The optimal levels of allowed output as well as the tax rate are increasingin investment. With divisible investment, commitment always leads to the first best,under direct regulation and taxation. Time-consistent...

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Commitment in Symmetric Contests

Possajennikov, Alex - University <Nottingham> / Department of Economics - 2008

The paper proves that in two-player logit form symmetric contestswith concave success function, commitment to a particular strategydoes not increase a player's payo, while in contests with more thantwo players it does. The paper also provides a contest-like game inwhich commitment does not...

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Strategic bi-sourcing

Beladi, Hamid; Mukherjee, Arijit - University of Texas <San Antonio, Tex.>; University … - 2008

profitable strategyunder both monopoly and product market competition. The incentive for bi-sourcingdepends on the product market … and outside input market competition... …

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FINANCIAL PREDATION BY THE WEAK

Bougheas, Spiros; Saksit Thananittayaudom - University <Nottingham> / Department of Economics - 2005

We examine a Stackelberg game where a financially constrainedleader faces competition from a ‘deep pocket’ follower. We …

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COMPETITION, INNOVATION AND WELFARE

Mukherjee, Arijit - University <Nottingham> / Department of Economics - 2005

We show the effects of Bertrand and Cournot competition on R&D investmentand social welfare in a duopoly with R …&D competition where success in R&D isprobabilistic. We show that R&D investments are higher under Bertrand (Cournot)competition when … Cournot competition can generate highersocial welfare in absence of knowledge spillover and this happens if R&D is drastic …

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ENTRY IN A STACKELBERG PERFECTEQUILIBRIUM

Mukherjee, Arijit - University <Nottingham> / Department of Economics - 2005

This paper considers welfare effects of entry when the incumbent firmbehaves like a Stackelberg leader in the product market. In contrast to previous work(Klemperer, 1988, Journal of Industrial Economics), we show that entry may alwaysincrease welfare. Using general demand function, we show the...

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IMPERFECTLY COMPETITIVE FINANCE, SENIORITY WAGES AND ECONOMIC GROWTH

Roberts, Mark A. - University <Nottingham> / Department of Economics - 2005

interest rates. A three-period OLG model is presented with monopolistic competition in the finance sector to endogenise the …

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ENTRY, LICENSING AND WELFARE

Mukherjee, Arijit; Mukherjee, Soma - University <Nottingham> / Department of Economics - 2005

We show the welfare effects of entry in presence of technology licensingunder Cournot competition. If the entrant is …

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BANKING COMPETITION AND CAPITAL ACCUMULATION: THE IMPORTANCE OF HOW PROFITS ARE RETURNED

Roberts, Mark A. - University <Nottingham> / Department of Economics - 2005

We consider the effects of an imperfectly competitive banking sector on the capital stock in a version of the two-period Diamond OLG model, focusing on how profits are returned. There are two broad alternatives: profits may be taxed and returned to households exogenously as fiscal transfers or...

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