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Product and labor market imperfections and scale economies : micro-evidence on France, Japan and the Netherlands
Dobbelaere, Sabien; Kiyota, Kōzō; Mairesse, Jacques - 2013
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A multinomial and rank-ordered logit model with inter- and intraindividual heteroscedasticity
Castelein, Anoek; Fok, Dennis; Paap, Richard - 2020
The heteroscedastic logit model is useful to describe choices of individuals when the randomness in the choice-making varies over time. For example, during surveys individuals may become fatigued and start responding more randomly to questions as the survey proceeds. Or when completing a ranking...
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Labor market imperfections, markups and productivity in multinationals and exporters
Dobbelaere, Sabien; Kiyota, Kōzō - 2017
-setting power) and (iii) revenue productivity. We apply this framework to analyze whether the pricing behavior of firms in product …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011772937
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Panel data estimates of the production function and product and labor market imperfections
Dobbelaere, Sabien; Mairesse, Jacques - 2010
Embedding the efficient bargaining model into the R. Hall (1988) approach for estimating price-cost margins shows that both imperfections in the product and labor markets generate a wedge between factor elasticities in the production function and their corresponding shares in revenue. This...
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Explaining the wealth holdings of different cohorts : productivity growth and social security
Kapteyn, Arie; Alessie, Rob; Lusardi, Annamaria - 1999
productivity growth and Social Security. The Netherlandsexperienced a steady growth after World War II. At the same time, it also … built up a very extensive welfaresystem. Our empirical findings show that productivity growth goes a long way in explaining … differences inincome across cohorts. Productivity growth and Social Security can explain most, if not all, of thedifferences in …
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The impact of WTO accession on Chinese firms' product and labor market power
Dobbelaere, Sabien; Wiersma, Quint - 2019
This paper examines the impact of WTO membership on the extensive and intensive margins of product and labor market power of Chinese manufacturing firms during the period 1999- 2006. We first identify a firm's regime of competitiveness, corresponding to a combination of a product market setting...
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The multinationalization of the transport sector
Larch, Mario - 2004
According to the World Investment Report 2004, the structure of Fmhas shifted towards services. Further, the composition of services FDI isalso changing from trade and finance to such industries as electricity, water ,telecommunications, storage and transportation. In the latter sector the...
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The effect of consumers' expectations in a booming housing market
Rouwendal, Jan; Longhi, Simonetta - 2007 - This version: September 26, 2007
Even though economic models have been relatively successful in explaining the long run patterns of house prices, they have more difficulties in explaining short run developments of the housing markets. However, the fact that during such ‘bubbles’ the spatial pattern of house prices, which...
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On mergers in consumer search markets
Janssen, Maarten C. W.; Moraga-González, José Luis - 2007
We study mergers in a market where N firms sell a homogeneous good and consumers search sequentially to discover prices. The main motivation for such an analysis is that mergers generally affect market prices and thereby, in a search environment, the search behavior of consumers. Endogenous...
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Minimum price guarantees in a consumer search model
Janssen, Maarten C. W.; Parakhonyak, Alexei - 2009
This paper is the first to examine the effect of minimum price guaranteesin a sequential search model. Minimum price guarantees are notadvertised and only known to consumers when they come to the shop.We show that in such an environment, minimum price guarantees increasethe value of buying the...
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