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Common ownership of competing firms: evidence from Australia
Leigh, Andrew; Triggs, Adam - 2021
limitations of the available data, and the potential implications of common ownership for competition in Australia. …
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Competition and innovation : the breakup of IG Farben
Poege, Felix - 2022
The relationship between competition and innovation is difficult to disentangle, as exogenous variation in market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013358717
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Labor market concentration and competition policy across the Atlantic
Araki, Satoshi; Bassanini, Andrea; Green, Andrew S.; … - 2022
of enforcement activity by European competition authorities in labor markets relative to the US. While enforcement action … competition enforcement in labor markets. The article identifies sectors and practices that may be scrutinized with priority by … European competition authorities and proposes a mix of enforcement, merger control and well-targeted policy and regulatory …
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Short- and long-run impacts of rural electrification : evidence from the historical rollout of the U.S. power grid
Lewis, Joshua; Severnini, Edson R. - 2017
Electrification among American farm households increased from less than 10 percent to nearly 100 percent over a three decade span, 1930{1960. We exploit the historical rollout of the U.S. power grid to study the short- and long-run impacts of rural electrification on local economies. In the...
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Evaluating the impacts of minigrid electrification in sub-Saharan Africa
Ayhan, Sinem H.; Falchetta, Giacomo; Steckel, Jan Christoph - 2022
A large share of the population of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) lacks access to modern energy services. To bridge the electricity access gap, distributed power generation systems such as minigrids and stand-alone photovoltaic systems emerge as attractive options in the power supply solution space....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013342931
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Increasing coverage of antiretroviral therapy and male medical circumcision in HIV hyperendemic countries : a cost-benefit analysis
Geldsetzer, Pascal; Bloom, David E.; Humair, Salal; … - 2015
HIV continues to cause the largest number of disability-adjusted life years of any disease in HIV hyperendemic countries (i.e., countries with an adult HIV prevalence 15%). We compare the benefits and costs of two proven biological interventions to reduce the health losses due to the HIV...
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How do households discount over centuries? : evidence from Singapore's private housing market
Fesselmeyer, Eric; Liu, Haoming; Salvo, Alberto - 2016
We examine Singapore's fairly homogeneous private-housing market and show that new apartments on historical multi-century leases trade at a non-zero discount relative to property owned in perpetuity. Descriptive regressions indicate that new apartments with 825 to 986 years of tenure remaining...
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On criteria for evaluating social programs
García García-Menéndez, Jorge Luis; Heckman, James J. - 2022
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Allocating subsidies for private investments to maximize jobs impacts
Robalino Aguirre, David A.; Romero, Jose Manuel; Walker, Ian - 2020
Governments often aim to influence the amount and sectoral allocation of private investments through explicit or implicit subsidies. The rules used to select projects to benefit from subsidies may vary, depending on the policy objective. This paper develops a general framework to allocate...
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Catching up is hard to do : undergraduate prestige, elite graduate programs, and the earnings premium
Hersch, Joni - 2019
A commonly held perception is that an elite graduate degree can "scrub" a less prestigious but less costly undergraduate degree. Using data from the National Survey of College Graduates from 2003 through 2017, this paper examines the relationship between the status of undergraduate degrees and...
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