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market economies. The primary focus of the study is on competition and market structure, finance and the structure of lending … interpretation of the evidence on competition is that there is an initial move by firms into niches to exploit local market power …
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financing systems aimed at increasing the competition between universities by making their pubic funds dependent on their … increased competition between universities causes grade inflation …
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The formation of human capital is important for a society's welfare and economic success. Recent literature shows that child health can provide an important explanation for disparities in children's human capital development across different socio-economic groups. While this literature focuses...
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, inequality is highly responsive to the increase in product market competition triggered by domestic regulatory reform …
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We study the attitudes of junior and senior employees towards strategic uncertainty and competition, by means of a …
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This paper asks how deregulation intended to promote competition in the commercial banking industry affected the …
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theoretical contribution is combining a job matching model with monopolistic competition in the goods market and individual wage … bargaining. Product market competition affects unemployment by two channels: the output expansion effect and a countervailing … effect due to a hiring externality. Competition is then linked to barriers to entry. We calibrate the model to US data and …
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In a market in which sellers compete for heterogeneous buyers by posting mechanisms, we analyze how the properties of the meeting technology affect the allocation of buyers to sellers. We show that a separate submarket for each type of buyer is the efficient outcome if and only if meetings are...
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Firms in developing countries often avoid paying taxes by making informal payments to tax officials. These bribes may raise the cost of operating a business, and the price charged to consumers. To decrease these costs, we designed a feedback incentive scheme for business tax inspectors that...
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40 percent of the observed decline in the labor share from 1997 to 2015. Mergers decrease competition for workers and …
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