Similar Search Results

A Model Of Market-Enhancing Infrastructure

Aghion, Philippe; Schankerman, Mark - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

asymmetric firms, restructuring, and entry. We show how these welfare effects depend on the initial level of market development …, and restructuring and entry costs. The model generates an endogenous demand for infrastructure investment, and the … simulate the relative welfare effects of reducing transport, restructuring and entry costs, and we evaluate in each case the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005656176

Competition, Entry, and the Social Returns to Infrastructure in Transition Economies

Aghion, Philippe; Schankerman, Mark - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

incentives for relatively low-cost firms to enter the market, and thus improves the efficiency of the entry process. The … among firms, the proportion of high-cost firms, the cost of restructuring, and entry costs for new firms. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005667044

Philanthropy in a secular society

Bittschi, Benjamin; Borgloh, Sarah; Wigger, Berthold U. - 2016

In this study we investigate the relationship between religious and charitable giving. We test how income, the tax-price of giving and the German church tax, differently affect charitable donations of church members, individuals leaving church and nonchurch members. We find crowding in between...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011442037

Expanding the Welfare System: A Proposal for Reform

Orszag, Mike; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

This proposal involves the establishment of ‘welfare accounts’ for every person in a country. There are four accounts: a retirement account (covering pensions), an unemployment account (covering unemployment support), a human capital account (covering education and training), and a health...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005661484

The R&D Investment-Uncertainty Relationship: Do Competition and Firm Size Matter?

Toole, Andrew A.; Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2008

This paper investigates how competition and firm size affect the relationship between market uncertainty and R&D investment. We use an intuitively appealing measure of firm-specific uncertainty along with panel data to show that firms invest less in current R&D as uncertainty about market...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297999

Deregulation, competition, and consolidation: The case of the German interurban bus industry

Dürr, Niklas S.; Heim, Sven; Hüschelrath, Kai - 2015

We provide an empirical assessment of the German interurban bus industry two years after its deregulation in January 2013. In addition to a general description of key developments of the industry, we use a unique route-level price data set to study both competitive interaction in general and the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011314563

Competition in the German interurban bus industry: A snapshot two years after liberalization

Dürr, Niklas S.; Hüschelrath, Kai - 2015

We study competition in the German interurban bus industry two years after its liberalization in January 2013. In addition to a brief characterization of the liberalization process and several general market developments, we provide a detailed analysis of selected market characteristics such as...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011314568

Non-sequential search, competition and price dispersion in retail electricity

Gugler, Klaus; Heim, Sven; Liebensteiner, Mario - 2016

We investigate the impact of consumer search and competition on pricing strategies in Germany's electricity retail. We utilize a unique panel dataset on spatially varying search requests at major online price comparison websites to construct a direct measure of search intensity and combine this...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011447766

Markups for consumers

Ganglmair, Bernhard; Kann, Alexander; Tsanko, Ilona - 2020

A central motivating factor for studying price markups is their effect on consumer welfare. Reported estimates of (firm-level) price markups in the literature, however, are often focused on industry or cross-country comparisons. These treat different industries equally rather than based on how...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012387884

Minimum wages and competition: The case of the German roofing sector

Kraft, Kornelius; Rammer, Christian; Gottschalk, Sandra - 2012

This paper analyses the effects of minimum wages on competition in the German roofing sector. The case is particularly interesting since this sector is faced with a uniform minimum wage despite significant regional disparities in productivity and wages. As a control industry we take the plumbing...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010310951