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Firm Dynamics and Residual Inequality in Open Economies
Felbermayr, Gabriel J. - 2014
, inequality is highly responsive to the increase in product market competition triggered by domestic regulatory reform …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013058310
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School Competition and Students' Entrepreneurial Intentions : International Evidence Using Historical Catholic Roots of Private Schooling
Falck, Oliver - 2010
effect of private-school competition on students' entrepreneurial intentions. We exploit Catholic-Church resistance to state …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141425
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Mikroökonomische Aspekte des Taximarktes
Rometsch, Stefan - 1996
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000923984
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Mikroökonomische Aspekte des Taximarktes
Rometsch, Stephan - 1996
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012699115
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The different extent of privatisation proceeds in EU countries : a preliminary explanation using a public choice approach
Belke, Ansgar; Baumgärtner, Frank; Schneider, Friedrich G. - 2005
This paper empirically investigates the differences in the motives of raising privatisation proceeds for a panel of EU countries from 1990 to 2000. More specifically, we test whether privatisations can be mainly interpreted (a) as ingredients of a larger reform package of economic liberalisation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276562
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Trade openness, market competition, and inflation: Some sectoral evidence from OECD countries
Binici, Mahir; Cheung, Yin-Wong; Lai, Kon S. - 2011
This study evaluates the role market competition plays in determining inflation based on sector-level data from OECD … countries. In theory, trade openness can affect inflation through changes in market competitiveness and productivity … of market competition. This study shows that inflation decreases with greater market competitiveness even after …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280812
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School competition and students' entrepreneurial intention: International evidence using historical Catholic roots of private schooling
Falck, Oliver; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010
effect of private-school competition on students' entrepreneurial intentions. We exploit Catholic-Church resistance to state …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270498
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The Regional Distribution of Public Employment : Theory and Evidence
Kessing, Sebastian G. - 2012
We analyze the optimal regional pattern of public employment in an information-constrained second-best redistribution policy showing that regionally differentiated public employment can serve as an expenditure side tagging device, bypassing or relaxing the equity-efficiency trade-off. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107718
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Happy Voters
Liberini, Federica - 2014
Motivated by recent interest and initiatives taken by several governments and international organizations to come up with indicators of well-being to inform policy makers, we test if subjective well-being measures (SWB) can be employed to study voting behaviour. Controlling for financial and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046234
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Competition in the service sector and the performances of manufacturing firms: Does liberalization matter?
Forlani, Emanuele - 2010
Services form an increasing proportion of the inputs used in manufacturing. We explore empirically whether competition …-data for services, we calculate proxies for competition in services, and then use Input-Output matrices to link services to … manufacturing sectors. we find that there is a positive and significant relation between the extent of competition and firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266094