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The multinationalization of the transport sector
Larch, Mario - 2004
transportsector dominated by multinationals and economies of scale in a modelof thenew trade theory leads to different predictions …
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Mobile phones and Mozambique farmers : less asymmetric information and more trader competition?
Zant, Wouter - 2018
what extent the introduction of mobile phones has affected the margin between recorded maize producer and retail market … producer and retail market prices of white maize grain, from July 1997 to December 2009, for 15 major producer markets in … producer and market prices independently vary, but confirm the margin results. Estimation results are robust for non …
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Skill intensity in foreign trade and economic growth
Wörz, Julia - 2004
This paper explores the link between trade structure, trade specialization and per capita incomegrowth. It is argued that industrial upgrading in export specialization patterns has a positive long-rungrowth effect, while the effect of structural change in industrial import patterns is in...
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Preferential trade arrangements and the pattern of production and trade when inputs are differentiated
Francois, Joseph F. - 2005
This paper is concerned with rules of origin when intermediate goods aredifferentiated. An analytical model emphasizes trade patterns and the relativeimportance of trade in intermediates given trade preferences. Econometric evidencebased on intra-OECD trade in motor vehicles and motor vehicle...
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The entrepreneurial adjustment process in disequilibrium
Burke, Andrew; Stel, Adriaan J. van - 2009
The main contribution of entrepreneurship theory to economics is to provide an account of market performance in … interrelationship differs between market ‘undershooting’ (the actual number of firms is below the equilibrium number) and ‘overshooting …
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Strategic versus financial investors : the role of strategic objectives in financial contracting
Arping, Stefan; Falconieri, Sonia - 2009
penalize poorly performing entrepreneurs by terminating their projects. Based on this tradeoff we develop a theory of financing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011378146
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Adoption of superior technology in markets with heterogeneous network externalities and price competition
Janssen, Maarten C. W.; Mendys-Kamphorst, Ewa - 2000
more about the size of the market share of agood than others. Interestingly, the answer depends on the quality difference … sense completely disappears, although the old technology may keepsome market share in some periods as the new technology is …
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Illinois walls
Schinkel, Maarten-Pieter; Tuinstra, Jan; Rüggeberg, Jakob - 2005
In its landmark ruling in Illinois Brick Co. v. Illinois in 1977, the U.S. Supreme Court restricted standing to sue for recovery of antitrust damages to direct purchasers. However, antitrust damages are typically (in part) passed on to intermediaries lower in the chain of production and...
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Comparative advantage, the rank-size rule, and Zipf's law
Hinloopen, Jeroen; Marrewijk, Charles van - 2006
Using a comprehensive international trade data set we investigate empirical regularities (known as Zipf’s Law or the rank-size rule) for the distribution of the interaction between countries as measured by revealed comparative advantage. Using the recently developed estimator by Gabaix and...
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Marketmaking middlemen
Gautier, Pieter; Hu, Bo; Watanabe, Makoto - 2016
This paper develops a model in which market structure is determined endogenously by the choice of intermediation mode …; the other is a market-making mode by which an intermediary offers a platform for buyers and sellers to trade with each … other. In our model, buyers and sellers can simultaneously search in an outside market and use the intermediation service …
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