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To ""B"" or Not to ""B"" : A Welfare Analysis of Breaking Up Monopolies in an Endogenous Growth Model
Xie, Danyang - 2000
reduces activities in the R&D sector. On the other hand, the enhanced competition for the equipment improves efficiency in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014399731
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Innovate to lead or innovate to prevail : when do monopolistic rents induce growth?
Piazza, Roberto; Zheng, Yu - 2019
This paper extends the Schumpeterian model of creative destruction by allowing followers' cost of innovation to increase in their technological distance from the leader. This assumption is motivated by the observation the more technologically ad- vanced the leader is, the harder it is for a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012155163
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Leadership Contestability, Monopolistic Rents and Growth
Piazza, Roberto - 2011
I construct an endogenous growth model where R&D is carried out at the industry level in a game of innovation between leaders and followers. Innovation costs for followers are assumed to increase with the technological lag from leaders. We obtain three results that contrast with standard...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400811
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Pricing Debit Card Payment Services : An IO Approach
Tieman, Alexander F. - 2003
This paper presents a theoretical framework for analyzing pricing structures in debit card schemes featuring cardholders, retailers, their respective banks, and a network routing switch. The network routing switch controls the electronic debit card network and is jointly owned by the banks. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014403871
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Exploring residual profit allocation
Beer, Sebastian; Mooij, Ruud A. de; Hebous, Shafik; … - 2020
Schemes of residual profit allocation (RPA) tax multinationals by allocating their 'routine' profits to countries in … which their activities take place and sharing their remaining 'residual' profit across countries on some formulaic basis … revenue, investment and efficiency. This paper explores these issues, conceptually and empirically. It finds residual profits …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012251292
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FX intervention to stabilize or manipulate the exchange rate? : inference from profitability
Sandri, Damiano - 2020
We analyze the profitability of FX swaps used by the central bank of Brazil to shed light on the rationale for FX intervention. We find that swaps are profitable in expectation, suggesting that FX intervention is used to stabilize the exchange rate in the face of temporary excessive movements...
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The African Continental Free Trade Agreement : welfare gains estimates from a general equilibrium model
Abrego, Lisandro E.; Amado, Maria Alejandra; Gursoy, Tunc; … - 2019
In March 2018, representatives of member countries of the African Union signed the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement. This agreement provides a framework for trade liberalization in goods and services and is expected to eventually cover all African countries. Using a...
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Welfare Gains From Financial Liberalization
Ueda, Kenichi - 2007
Financial liberalization has been a controversial issue as there is little empirical evidence for its positive effects on economic growth. However, we find sizable welfare gains, 1 to 28 percent of permanent consumption though, consistent with the literature, the gain in the economic growth is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400329
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Public Infrastructures, Public Consumption, and Welfare in a New-Open-Economy-Macro Model
Ganelli, Giovanni - 2007
This paper focuses on the trade-off faced by governments in deciding the allocation of public expenditures between productivity-enhancing public infrastructures and utility-enhancing public consumption. From the modeling point of view, the paper augments a standard New Open Economy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400345
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Lucas vs. Lucas : On Inequality and Growth
Cordoba, Juan Carlos - 2007
Lucas (2004) asserts that ""Of the tendencies that are harmful to sound economics, the most seductive, and in my opinion the most poisonous, is to focus on questions of distribution. The potential for improving the lives of poor people by finding different ways of distributing current production...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400357