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by both high entry and high exit rates. … entrepreneurs and theentry and exit rate of entrepreneurs simultaneously and consistently. We apply our unified approach tothe …
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time effects. All countries display a massive reallocation of resources, with the entry and exit of many firms in all … market contestability. There are also large differences across groups of countries. While entry and exit rates are fairly … similar across industrial countries, post entry performance differs markedly between Europe and the U.S., a potential …
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Where markets are insufficiently competitive, governments can intervene by auctioninglicenses to operate or by forcing divestitures. The Dutch government has doneexactly that, organizing auctions to redistribute tenancy rights for highway gasolinestations and forcing the divestiture of outlets...
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disequilibrium but little empirical research has examined firm entry and exit in this context. We redress this by modelling the … interrelationship between firm entry and exit in disequilibrium. Introducing a new methodology we investigate whether this … new-firm entry) while in overshoots competition induced by new firms (in particular strong displacement) helps restore …
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This paper conducts the first general equilibrium analysis of the role of entry, exit and profits in industry dynamics …, to discriminate between three aspects of industry dynamics: the effect of entry and exit on market equilibrium, duration … simultaneous equilibrium model of profits, entry and exit. We find that indeed entrants play an entrepreneurial function causing …
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and Europe, evolutionary economics explains the role that diversity, selection andlearning plays in economic development …
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This article analyzes the role of suggested prices in the Dutch retail market for gasoline. Suggested prices are announced by large oil companies with the suggestion that retailers follow them. There are at least two competing rationales for the existence of suggested prices: they may either...
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This paper presents a trade model with capital and labor as factors of production. The main contribution of this paper is that it considers a new type of firm heterogeneity, which is empirically relevant: firms in this paper differ with respect to their factor shares in production. Therefore,...
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This paper studies asymmetric price responses of individual firms, via daily retail prices of almost all gasoline stations in the Netherlands and suggested prices of the five largest oil companies over more than two years. I find that 38% of the stations respond asymmetrically to changes in the...
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This paper models strategic interactions between a product supplier, a provider of information about product quality, and end users, in the context of road transportation. Using a game-theoretical analysis of suppliers' pricing strategies, we assess the social welfare effects of traffic...
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