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This article presents an agent-based modelof Prato, an Italian textile district where thousands ofsma1l firms specialise into tiny phases of the whole production process. It is an empirical model atscale 1: 1 that reconstructs the information flows between economic actors and connects them...
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This study analyses 1400 research projects of the top 20 R&D-spending pharmaceuticals to identify the determinants of successful research projects. We provide clear evidence that externally sourced projects and projects involving biotechnologies perform better than internal projects and chemical...
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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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capture, favor connected interests, and undermine finance access and entry. Thus the degree of access to political rights by …
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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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We investigate the nature of market failure in a dynamic version of Akerlof (1970) where identical cohorts of a durable good enter the market over time. In the dynamic model, equilibria with qualitatively different properties emerge. Typically, in equilibria of the dynamic model, sellers with...
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We investigate the nature of the adverse selection problem in a market for adurable goodwhere trading and entry of new …
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by both high entry and high exit rates. …
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