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Security of property as a public good : institutions, socio-political environment and experimental behavior in five countries

Campos-Ortiz, Francisco; Putterman, Louis G.; Ahn, T. K.; … - 2012

We study experimentally the protection of property in five widely distinct countries - Austria, Mexico, Mongolia, South …

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Distributional effects of competition: a simulation approach

Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos; Araar, Abdelkrim; … - 2021

Welfare and Competition tool (WELCOM), to estimate with minimum data requirements the direct distributional effects of market … of reducing concentration in two markets in Mexico that are known for their high level of concentration: mobile … telecommunications and corn products. The results show that increasing competition from four to 12 firms in the mobile telecommunications …

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Labor market adjustment to third party competition : evidence from Mexico

Robertson, Raymond; Halliday, Timothy; Vasireddy, Sindhu - 2018

China's exports reduce wages in importing countries, but few studies have looked at competition in third party markets …. We examine labor market outcomes in Mexico's apparel and textile sectors associated with U.S. apparel and textile imports … from China are associated with a reduction of employment in Mexico's textile and apparel sectors. These effects are the …

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The effects of local market concentration and international competition on firm productivity : evidence from Mexico

Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos; López-Calva, Luis F.; … - 2020

Although market concentration is one of the main impediments to productivity growth globally, data constraints have limited its analysis to developed countries or cross-country studies based on definitions of market concentration across nations and industries. This paper takes advantage of a...

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Better means more : property rights and high-growth aspiration entrepreneurship

Estrin, Saul; Korosteleva, Julia; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2009

This paper contrasts the determinants of entrepreneurial entry and high-growth aspiration entrepreneurship. Using the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) surveys for 42 countries over the period 1998-2005, we analyse how institutional environment and entrepreneurial characteristics affect...

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Shadow economy and entrepreneurial entry

Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2010

shadow economy on entry to perceived strong competition faced by new entrants when the shadow economy is widespread. At the …

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Control rights in public-private partnerships

Francesconi, Marco (contributor); … - 2006

This paper develops a theory of the allocation of authority between two parties that produce impure public goods. We show that the optimal allocation depends on technological factors, the parties' valuations of the goods produced, and the degree of impurity of these goods. When the degree of...

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What’s the use of marriage?

Cigno, Alessandro - 2009

We use elementary game-theoretical concepts to compare domestic equilibria with and without marriage. In particular, we examine the effects of marriage legislation, matrimonial property regime, and divorce court sentencing practice, on the decision to marry, and on the choice of game conditional...

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Globalization, institutions, and the ethnic divide : recent longitudinal evidence

Wunnava, Phanindra V.; Mitra, Aniruddha; Prasch, Robert E. - 2012

This paper investigates the determinants of economic growth emphasizing the role of institutional quality, social fragmentation, and increasing global integration on recent growth experience. Our longitudinal data consists of 103 countries covering the period 1992-2005. We find that democracies...

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Gender discrimination and common property resources

Casari, Marco; Lisciandra, Maurizio - 2015

In an open economy with common property resources at the community level, marriage and migratory decisions crucially depend on inheritance rules on the commons. Motivated by the traditional management of the commons in the Italian Alps, we present a model that fits the evolution of property...

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