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Market Structure, Technological Gap and Vertical Linkage Effects from Foreign Direct Investment
Kadochnikov, Sergey; Drapkin, Igor M. - 2021
pure monopoly. We extend this model by examining cases of perfect competition and a vertically integrated domestic company … larger are the backward linkage effects. They reach their maximum under perfect competition in the intermediate goods market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316575
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Macroeconomic Effects of Market Structure Distortions : Evidence from French Cartels
Moreau, Flavien; Panon, Ludovic - 2022
Competition Authority. These practices are widely spread across sectors and cartel members are typically among the top firms in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014082659
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Product and Labor Market Deregulation in Unionized Oligopoly with Asymmetric Countries
Egger, Hartmut - 2011
setting, we study the trade and welfare implications of labor market deregulation and compare these implications with the … consequences of product market deregulation. Thereby, we take into account that labor market reforms are subject to national policy … decisions and thus associated with unilateral intervention, while product market deregulation is determined at an international …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119394
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The Macroeconomic Effects of Labor and Product Market Reforms in Morocco
Sarr, Babacar - 2019
This paper studies the macroeconomic effects and sequencing of (LMRs) and product (PMRs) market reforms in Morocco. It finds that introducing LMRs and PMRs simultaneously would add about 2.5 percentage points (pp) of GDP growth and reduce unemployment by about 2.2 pp after five years. If...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012858957
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Knowing the Damages is Not Enough : The General Equilibrium Impacts of Climate Change
Kalkuhl, Matthias - 2016
We show that economies may exhibit a strong endogenous macroeconomic adaptation response to climate change. If climate change induces a structural change to the more productive sector, economies can benefit from climate change though productivities in both sectors are reduced. If climate change...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012992447
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Green Paradox and Directed Technical Change : The Effect of Subsidies to Clean R&D
Daubanes, Julien - 2014
We borrow standard assumptions from the non-renewable-resource-taxation and from the directed-technical-change literatures, to take a full account of the incentives to perform R&D activities in a dirty-resource sector and in a clean-resource-substitute sector. We show that a gradual rise in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013063394
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Macroeconomic Effects of Government Spending Shocks : New Evidence Using Natural Disaster Relief in Korea
Yang, Weonho - 2012
We investigate the macroeconomic effects of government spending shocks in Korea. We compare results obtained with two alternative approaches: the narrative approach and Structural Vector-Autoregressive model (SVAR). We propose a new methodology for identifying exogenous and unexpected fiscal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013100013
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Macroeconomic Effects of Fiscal Adjustment : A Tale of Two Approaches
Yang, Weonho - 2013
We investigate the short-term effects of fiscal adjustment on economic activity in 20 OECD countries from 1970 to 2009. We compare two approaches: the traditional approach based on changes in cyclically adjusted primary balance (CAPB) and the narrative approach based on historical records....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013075620
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The Economic Impact of Non-Communicable Disease in China and India : Estimates, Projections, and Comparisons
Bloom, David E. - 2013
This paper provides estimates of the economic impact of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in China and India for the period 2012-2030. Our estimates are derived using WHO's EPIC model of economic growth, which focuses on the negative effects of NCDs on labor supply and capital accumulation. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013076812
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A Positive Analysis of Targeted Employment Protection Legislation
Dolado, Juan Jose; Jansen, Marcel; Jimeno, Juan F. - 2007
In many countries, Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) establishes less strict dismissal procedures for specific groups of workers. This paper builds a simple matching model with heterogeneous workers in order to analyze this feature of EPL. We use the model to analyze the effects of reforms...
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