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Services form an increasing proportion of the inputs used in manufacturing. We explore empirically whether competition in the service sector affects downstream manufacturing firms' efficiency, via the inputs used. Using French micro-data for services, we calculate proxies for competition in...
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integrated significantly with the RPN. The paper attempts to assess how far intra-industry trade in the form of production and …
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We develop a general-equilibrium model to capture key features of the retailing and of the manufacturing industry in …
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We study the impacts of public investment, notably in construction and in R&D on economic growth and of crowding … construction investment has a more positive effect on economic growth in emerging economies; iv) innovations in public construction …
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This paper studies the effect of structural change on the historical path of aggregate labor productivity growth for a large sample of European countries, and it builds a quantitative multi-sector growth model to analyze the potential impact that structural change may have on future productivity...
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media consumers becomes more important the larger the number of competing media products. …
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imposed on detected payment evaders. For a given price and fine, the consumers purchase, evade payment, or choose the outside …
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In our model, an agent produces an outcome by a costly effort and then distributes it among heterogeneous users. The agents̕ payoff is the weighted sum of the users ̕shares and the coefficient reflecting their heterogeneity. When the agent neglects users ̕heterogeneity the game leads to an...
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This paper assumes that groups of consumers in network markets can coordinate their choices when it is in their best … coexist in equilibrium if consumers have heterogeneous reservation values. A monopolist provider might choose to operate … multiple networks to price differentiate consumers on both sides of the market. Competing network providers might operate …
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In the context of emission trading it seems to be taken as given that people's preferences can be ignored with respect to the whole process of fixing emission targets and allocating emission permits to polluters. With this paper we want to reopen the debate on how citizens can be involved in...
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