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Firm dynamics and residual inequality in open economies
Felbermayr, Gabriel; Giammario, Impullitti; Prat, Julien - 2014
, inequality is highly responsive to the increase in product market competition triggered by domestic regulatory reform. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010250120
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Local capital scarcity and small firm growth : evidence from real estate booms in China
Hau, Harald; Ouyang, Difei - 2019
In geographically segmented credit markets, local real estate booms can deteriorate the funding conditions for small manufacturing firms and undermine their competitiveness. Using exogenous variation in the administrative land supply across 172 Chinese cities, we show that higher predicted real...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012120233
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Ten facts on declining business dynamism and lessons from endogenous growth theory
Akcigit, Ufuk; Ates, Sina T. - 2019
explain them. We then describe a theoretical framework of endogenous markups, innovation, and competition that can potentially …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012104042
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Long-lasting bank relationships and growth of firms
Gambini, Alessandro; Zazzaro, Alberto - 2010
A puzzling but consistent result in the empirical literature on banking is that firms with close bank ties do not grow faster than bank-independent firms. In this paper, we reconsider the link between relationship lending and firms' growth, distinguishing firms by size and "health". The idea is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003981984
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Discrimination in dynamic procurement design with learning-by-doing
Barbosa, Klenio; Boyer, Pierre C. - 2012
paper studies the long-run impact of procurement discrimination on market structure and future competition in industries … with respect to their initial cost distribution. This bias fosters future competition and reduces intertemporal expected …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009630098
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Advantageous smallness in contests
Amegashie, J. Atsu - 2021
A standard result in contests is that a higher-ability player has a higher probability of winning the prize than a lower-ability player. Put differently, a stronger player has an advantage over a weaker player in a contest. There are very few exceptions to this standard result. I consider a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012669006
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Trust, competition and innovation : theory and evidence from German car manufacturers
Calzolari, Giacomo; Felli, Leonardo; Koenen, Johannes; … - 2015
&D investment, and derive predictions on the effects of trust and competition on suppliers' investment and buyers' procurement … - but also with more competitive procurement: trust and rents from reduced supplier competition in the procurement process …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010485523
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A retrospective study of state aid control in the German broadband market
Duso, Tomaso; Nardotto, Mattia; Seldeslachts, Jo - 2021
broadband infrastructure in rural areas of Germany. Such subsidies are subject to state aid control by the European Commission … subsidies complied with EU state aid rules, both in terms of effectiveness and competition. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012433753
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What happened to U.S. business dynamism?
Akcigit, Ufuk; Ates, Sina T. - 2019
In the past several decades, the U.S. economy has witnessed a number of striking trends that indicate a rising market concentration and a slowdown in business dynamism. In this paper, we make an attempt to understand potential common forces behind these empirical regularities through the lens of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012104132
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A simple model of health insurance competition
Kemnitz, Alexander - 2010
This paper investigates competition between health insurance companies under different financing regulations. We … consider two alternatives advanced in recent German health care reform discussions: competition by contribution rates (health … contributions) and by fees (health premia). We find that contribution rate competition yields lower company profits and higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008698408