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Information and Competition Entry
Ewers, Mara - 2012
This paper studies the influence of information on entry choices in a competition with a controlled laboratory … experiment. We investigate whether information provision attracts mainly high productivity individuals and reduces competition … failure, where competition failure occurs when a subject loses the competition because the opponent holds a higher …
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Meet the Press : How Voters and Politicians Respond to Newspaper Entry and Exit
Drago, Francesco - 2013
politicians accountable once they are in office. Competition plays a relevant role, as the effects are not limited to the first …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087417
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Institutions and Entry : A Cross-Regional Analysis in Russia
Bruno, Randolph Luca - 2011
We analyse a micro-panel data set to investigate the effect of regional institutional environment and economic factors on Russian new firm entry rates across time, industries and regions. The paper builds on novel databases and exploits inter-regional variation in a large number of institutional...
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Corruption as a Barrier to Entry : Theory and Evidence
Campos, Nauro F. - 2010
Conventional wisdom depicts corruption as a tax on incumbent firms. This paper challenges this view in two ways. First, by arguing that corruption matters not so much because of the value of the bribe ("tax"), but because of another less studied feature of corruption, namely bribe...
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Minimum Wages as a Barrier to Entry : Evidence from Germany
Bachmann, Ronald - 2012
threat of low-wage competition from Central and Eastern European Countries is relatively high. In addition, firms paying …
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Inflation and Welfare in Long-Run Equilibrium with Firm Dynamics
Janiak, Alexandre - 2009
We analyze the welfare cost of inflation in a model with cash-in-advance constraints and an endogenous distribution of establishments' productivities. Inflation distorts aggregate productivity through firm entry dynamics. The model is calibrated to the United States economy and the long-run...
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Subsidizing Firm Entry in Open Economies
Pflüger, Michael - 2009
present a general equilibrium model of monopolistic competition with two (potentially) asymmetric countries and heterogeneous …
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The Effect of Labor Market Conditions at Entry on Workers' Long-Term Skills
Arellano-Bover, Jaime - 2020
This paper studies the impact of labor market conditions during the education-to-work transition on workers' long-term skill development. Using representative survey data on measures of work-relevant cognitive skills for adults from 19 countries, I document four main findings: i) cohorts of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012837313
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Entry, Exit and Productivity : Empirical Results for German Manufacturing Industries
Wagner, Joachim - 2007
Using panel data from Spain Farinas and Ruano (IJIO 2005) test three hypotheses from a model by Hopenhayn (Econometrica 1992): (H1) Firms that exit in year t were in t-1 less productive than firms that continue to produce in t. (H2) Firms that enter in year t are less productive than incumbent...
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Mexican-Hispanic Self-Employment Entry : The Role of Business Start-Up Constraints
Lofstrom, Magnus - 2007
This paper examines causes of the low self-employment rates among Mexican-Hispanics by studying self-employment entry utilizing the 1996 panel of the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP). The data show that Mexican-Hispanics are less likely to be self-employed as well as entering...
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