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On 3 June 2020, the German government announced a EUR 130 billion fiscal stimulus package to stimulate market demand and jumpstart the economy in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown in the spring of 2020. The most prominent measure of this package is an unconventional fiscal policy in the...
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Antidumping creates opportunities for abuse to stifle market competition. Whether cartels actually abuse trade policy … that matches cartel investigations with trade data at the product level. We then estimate the world import price and … higher world import prices and lower quantities during cartel periods, and to induce the establishment of a cartel. The …
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We analyze the demand and supply characteristics of the Indian telecommunications market, in order to assess the … competition on investment: competition seemingly helps stimulating investment in the most developed areas, but has probably no …
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This paper investigates the impact of the largest rail strikes in German history on intercity buses – a then newly liberalised market. Using unique booking data of bus services, we exploit variation in rail service cancellations across routes to show that the disruption in rail transport...
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competition. In this paper we provide the first empirical analysis of this relationship. We study Germany's retail gasoline market … on outcomes linked to competition. Because station-level adoption is endogenous, we use brand headquarter-level adoption … competition …
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quality - but also with more competition among suppliers. Both associations hold only for parts involving comparatively … relationships involving higher trust, buyers are able to induce higher investment and more intense competition among suppliers - but …
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and Wiley on the other side facilitate easy open access publishing for researchers located in Germany. We use a dataset of … publications in Wiley and Springer Nature journals at the cost of other journals. From that two related competition concerns emerge …
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This paper examines the evolution of public policies before the scheduled political elections based on the government responses to the Covid pandemic. The results of an event study in a sample of countries that experienced political elections during the first year of the pandemic suggest that...
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of the disruption in production that started in China and then quickly spread across the world. We find that the COVID-19 … shock has a considerable impact on most economies in the world, especially when a share of the labor force is quarantined …
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We empirically analyze the effect of UN and US economic sanctions on life expectancy and its gender gap in target countries. Our sample covers 98 less developed and newly industrialized countries over the period 1977–2012. We employ a matching approach to account for the endogeneity of...
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