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The Effects of Entry on Incumbent Innovation and Productivity

Aghion, Philippe; Blundell, Richard William; Griffith, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

How does firm entry affect innovation incentives and productivity growth in incumbent firms? Micro-data suggests that there is heterogeneity across industries - incumbents in technologically advanced industries react positively to entry, but not in laggard industries. To explain this pattern, we...

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The Determinants of Privatized Enterprise Performance in Russia

Angelucci, Manuela; Bevan, Alan; Estrin, Saul; Fennema, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

Using data from a large enterprise-level panel designed to address this issue, we account for enterprise performance in Russia. We link performance to four aspects of the economic environment outlined in the literature: enterprise ownership; corporate governance; market structures and competition;...

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Shopping Hours and Price Competition

Inderst, Roman; Irmen, Andreas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

where one retailer stays open for longer than the other does. Both retailers charge higher prices than under regulation, and …

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Building Reputation for Contract Renewal: Implications for Performance Dynamics and Contract Duration

Iossa, Elisabetta; Rey, Patrick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

We study how career concerns affect the dynamics of incentives in a multi-period contract, when the agent’s productivity is a stochastic function of his past productivity and investment. We show that incentives are stronger and performance is higher when the contract approaches its expiry...

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Market Entry and Roll-out With Product Differentiation

Levine, Paul L; Rickman, Neil; Tzavara, Dionisia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

This Paper examines a general problem exemplified by post-auction (third generation ‘3G’) mobile telecommunications markets and by recent developments in the UK market for postal services. When entering these (or any other) markets, firms must often decide on the degree of coverage...

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Identifying Industry Margins with Unobserved Price Constraints: Structural Estimation on Pharmaceuticals

Dubois, Pierre; Lasio, Laura - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

chosen in some markets, for example due to regulation. We use our identification strategy to study the effects of regulatory …-ulcer drugs that allows us to explore the drivers of demand, to identify whether regulation in France truly affects margins and … increased over the 2004-2007 period because of new regulation of price setting that reduced branded drugs prices but increased …

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Entry and Regulation - Evidence from Health Care Professions

Schaumans, Catherine; Verboven, Frank - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

The health care professions in Europe have been subject to substantial entry and conduct regulation. Most notably … relevant in light of the renewed attention by competition authorities to liberalize professional regulation. …

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Investment and capital structure of partially private regulated firms

Cambini, Carlo; Spiegel, Yossi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We develop a model that examines the capital structure and investment decisions of regulated firms in a setting that incorporates two key institutional features of the public utilities sector in many countries: firms are partially owned by the state and regulators are not necessarily...

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Welfare Analysis of Regulating Mobile Termination Rates in the UK (with an Application to the Orange/T-Mobile Merger)

Harbord, David; Hoernig, Steffen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

This paper presents results from a calibrated welfare model of the UK mobile telephony market which includes many mobile networks; calls to and from the fixed network; networkbased price discrimination; and call externalities. The analysis focuses on the short-run effects of adopting lower...

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Entrepreneurial Innovations, Entrepreneurship Policy and Globalization

Douhan, Robin; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

What explains the world-wide trend of pro-entrepreneurial policies? We study entrepreneurial policy in a lobbying model taking into account the conflict of interest between entrepreneurs and incumbents. It is shown that international market integration leads to more pro-entrepreneurial policies....

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