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Regulatory Barriers and Entry in Developing Economies
Bennett, John - 2006
We model entry by entrepreneurs into new markets in developing economies with regulatory barriers in the form of licence fees and bureaucratic delay. Because laissez faire leads to quot;excessivequot; entry, a licence fee can increase welfare by discouraging entry. However, in the presence of a...
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Employment Protection, Product Market Regulation and Firm Selection
Koeniger, Winfried; Prat, Julien - 2021
This paper analyzes the effect of labor and product market regulation in a dynamic stochastic equilibrium with search …-and-firing (intensive) margin. We characterize analytically how both margins depend on regulation before we calibrate the model to the US … through firm selection. Finally, the opposite effect of product and labor market regulation on job turnover rationalizes the …
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Barriers to Entry, Deregulation and Workplace Training
Bassanini, Andrea; Brunello, Giorgio - 2021
European Labour Force Survey to investigate empirically the relationship between product market regulation and training …
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Policies to Promote Growth and Economic Efficiency in Mexico
Arias, Javier - 2010
heavy burden of monopoly and regulation. We find little evidence that the introduction of social protection programs for …This paper discusses the problems facing the Mexican economy. It operates under a heavy burden of monopoly and … regulation. We focus on two issues that should receive more attention in discussions of Mexican policy. (1) The family is under …
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Product Market Regulation, Firm Selection and Unemployment
Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Prat, Julien - 2021
This paper analyzes the effect of Product Market Regulation (PMR) on unemployment in a search model with heterogeneous …
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The Dynamics of Power in Labor Markets : Monopolistic Unions Versus Monopsonistic Employers
Dodini, Samuel; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Willén, Alexander - 2022
This paper brings together the modern research on employer power and employee power by empirically examining the effects of unionization on worker earnings, employment, and inequality across differently concentrated markets. Exploiting national tax reforms to union membership dues as exogenous...
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Corruption as a Barrier to Entry : Theory and Evidence
Campos, Nauro F. - 2010
entry (above finance, taxes and regulation) and (b) while bribes' unavoidability is positively related to firm performance …
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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...
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Subsidizing Firm Entry in Open Economies
Pflüger, Michael - 2009
the monopoly pricing distortion. In the autarky equilibrium these subsidies trigger entry, but they eventually do not lead …
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How Darwinian Should an Economy Be?
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2014
This paper studies aggregate dynamics in a cobweb model where learning takes place through a selection mechanism, by which more successful firms are replicated at a higher rate. The structure of the model allows to characterize analytically the aggregate dynamics, and to compute the effect on...
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