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Does Anti-Competitive Regulation Matter for Productivity? Evidence from European Firms
Arnold, Jens Matthias - 2011
. These allow accounting for both the direct effects of sectoral regulation on within-sector performance and the indirect … effects of sectoral regulation on firms in other sectors through intersectoral input-output linkages. Our econometric … at the global technological frontier and a catch up term. We assume that regulation can affect productivity growth both …
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Cross-Country Differences in Productivity : The Role of Allocation and Selection
Bartelsman, Eric J. - 2009
This paper combines different strands of the productivity literature to investigate the effect of idiosyncratic (firm-level) policy distortions on aggregate outcomes. On the one hand, a growing body of empirical research has been relating cross-country differences in key economic outcomes, such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153504
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The market for financial adviser misconduct
Egan, Mark L.; Matvos, Gregor; Seru, Amit - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451794
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Survival of the fittest or the fattest? : Exit and financing in the trucking industry
Zingales, Luigi - 1997
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Competition and bank opacity
Jiang, Liangliang; Levine, Ross; Chen, Lin - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010468864
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Firm Dynamics and Residual Inequality in Open Economies
Felbermayr, Gabriel J. - 2014
, inequality is highly responsive to the increase in product market competition triggered by domestic regulatory reform …
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Market Orientation and Gender Wage Gaps : An International Study
Zweimüller, Martina; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; … - 2021
in international data. More market orientation might be related to gender wage gaps via its effects on competition in … product and labor markets and the general absence of regulation in the economy. The first approach employs meta-analysis data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316922
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Does competition affect bank risk?
Jiang, Liangliang; Levine, Ross; Chen, Lin - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011613393
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Optimal Use of Labor Market Policies : The Role of Job Search Assistance
Wunsch, Conny - 2010
This paper studies the role of job search assistance programs in optimal welfare-to-work programs. The analysis is based on a framework, that allows for endogenous choice of benefit types and levels, wage taxes or subsidies, and activation measures such as monitoring and job search assistance...
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Agency and Communication in IMF Conditional Lending : Theory and Empirical Evidence
Marchesi, Silvia - 2014
We focus on the role that the transmission of information between a multilateral (the IMF) and a country has for the optimal design of conditional reforms. Our model predicts that when agency problems are especially severe, and/or IMF information is valuable, a centralized control is indeed...
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