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gasoline market confirms that increases in concentration reduce product variety. Ignoring this product variety effect is likely …
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We use transaction-level data to study changes in the concentration of US imports. Concentration has fallen in the … typical industry, while it is stable by industry and origin country. The fall in concentration is driven by the extensive … firms within country are diverging. Finally, higher concentration from an origin country is associated with a fall in prices …
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Two types of agents interact on a pre-existing free platform. Agents value positively the presence of agents of the other type but may value negatively the presence of agents of their own type. We ask whether a new platform can find fees and subsidies so as to divert agents from the existing...
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The New Trade Theory predicts that international trade lowers prices for consumers and expands the choices available to them. This study shows that both predictions may no longer hold once adjustments in the retail sector are taken into account. I present a new model of retailing in general...
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concentration on relationship lending which cannot be easily accommodated by the investment and strategic theories of relationship …
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We construct a model of trade with heterogeneous retailers to examine the effects of trade liberalization on retail market structure, imports and social welfare. We are especially interested in studying the degree of pass-through of import into retail prices and the effects of retail market...
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Two types of agents interact on a pre-existing free platform. Agents value positively the presence of agents of the other type but may value negatively the presence of agents of their own type. We ask whether a new platform can find fees and subsidies so as to divert agents from the existing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317024
This paper argues that tax avoidance by large corporations has contributed to the 25% increase in concentration among U … that the average industry concentration would have been 8.3% lower, which is around its early 2000 level …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012825999
We use transaction-level data to study changes in the concentration of US imports. Concentration has fallen in the … typical industry, while it is stable by industry and origin country. The fall in concentration is driven by the extensive … firms within country are diverging. Finally, higher concentration from an origin country is associated with a fall in prices …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013235106
This paper analyzes the impact of financial development on export concentration. I incorporate credit constraints into … production costs instead of investments suggests a negative impact of financial development on export concentration as smaller … support for the predictions of the investment model that higher financial development increases export concentration among top …
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