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. These allow accounting for both the direct effects of sectoral regulation on within-sector performance and the indirect … effects of sectoral regulation on firms in other sectors through intersectoral input-output linkages. Our econometric … at the global technological frontier and a catch up term. We assume that regulation can affect productivity growth both …
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Decisions to donate time or money for charitable purposes are typically seen as make-or-buy decisions, implying that there should be a clear distinction between individuals engaging in one of these two forms of giving and that this distinction should be somehow linked to opportunity costs. But...
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to firms that can efficiently limit the externality. The optimal mechanism supplements this strict local regulation with …
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This paper explores the dynamics of press freedom around events that threaten or oust the incumbent regime of a country. While democracies on average grant the press more freedom, our theoretical starting point is that democracies and autocracies may have similar incentives to protect the power...
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We apply and extend the cost-based approach to bundling and tying under competition developed in Evans and Salinger …
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This paper combines different strands of the productivity literature to investigate the effect of idiosyncratic (firm-level) policy distortions on aggregate outcomes. On the one hand, a growing body of empirical research has been relating cross-country differences in key economic outcomes, such...
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in a trade model of multi-product firms and show that producers face tougher competition in export markets with lower …
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function from revenue data when a firm faces a general nonparametric demand function under imperfect competition. Under …
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, inequality is highly responsive to the increase in product market competition triggered by domestic regulatory reform …
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in international data. More market orientation might be related to gender wage gaps via its effects on competition in … product and labor markets and the general absence of regulation in the economy. The first approach employs meta-analysis data …
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