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In the past two decades privatisation and liberalisation of network industries providing services of general economic interest (SGEI), have been particularly significant in the European Union. Wide variations around a common policy trend can, however, be observed across countries and sectors. We...
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The price-setting behaviour of manufacturing plants is examined using a large panel of monthly surveyed plant- and product-specific prices. The sample shows a high frequency of zero changes, relatively small price changes, and a strong seasonal price-change pattern. The intermittent feature of...
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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 …
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, inequality is highly responsive to the increase in product market competition triggered by domestic regulatory reform …
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Competition among physicians is widespread, but compelling empirical evidence on the impact on service provision is … limited, mainly due to lack of exogenous variation in the degree of competition. In this paper we exploit that many GPs, in … observe the same GP in two different competitive environments; with competition (own practice) and without competition …
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In many markets, sellers advertise their good with an asking price. This is a price at which the seller will take his good off the market and trade immediately, though it is understood that a buyer can submit an offer below the asking price and that this offer may be accepted if the seller...
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-Nash equilibria in a duopoly. Comparing equilibrium prices to the prices set by a multiproduct monopolist, we show that competition … drives prices up and may lead to price dispersion. Competition reduces total surplus in the short run but provides higher …
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We investigate whether globalization influenced credit market deregulation over the period 1970-2010. Globalization is … measured by the KOF indices of globalization. Credit market deregulation is measured by the credit market freedom indicators of … positive correlation between globalization and credit market deregulation. We account for reverse causality by using predicted …
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We explore empirically how capital inflows into the US and financial deregulation within the United States interacted … measure of financial liberalization, we focus on the history of interstate-banking deregulation during the 1980s, i.e. prior … of deregulation: in states that opened their banking markets to out-of-state banks earlier, house prices were more …
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The research agenda of Europeanization is currently highly focused on issued related to what accounts for the 'horizontal' interaction between domestic actors and how these actors make use of stimuli originating from the EU. This paper aims to contribute to this line of inquiry through the case...
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