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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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Labor Market Adjustment : Is Russia Different?
Gimpelson, Vladimir - 2015
The paper discusses how the Russian labor market has been evolving over two decades of the transition. It starts with tracing key labor market indicators such as employment, unemployment, labor force participation, working hours, and real wages. Their dynamics indicate that the labor market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013038147
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Convergence in Institutions and Market Outcomes : Cross-Country and Time-Series Evidence from the BEEPS Surveys in Transition Economies
Mitra, Pradeep; Muravyev, Alexander; Schaffer, Mark E. - 2021
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324752
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136941
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155605
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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013042991
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Biased Beliefs and Entry into Scientific Careers
Ganguli, Ina - 2020
We investigate whether excessively optimistic beliefs may play a role in the persistent demand for doctoral and post-doctoral training in science. We elicit the beliefs and career preferences of doctoral students through a novel survey and randomize the provision of structured information on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012828014
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Imperfect Transmission of Tacit Knowledge and Other Barriers to Entrepreneurship
Poutvaara, Panu; Kanniainen, Vesa - 2021
This paper identifies several distortions which create barriers to entrepreneurship. First, in addition to the innate entry cost, there are entry costs caused by regulation. Second, union wage policies raise the opportunity cost of entrepreneurship. Third, inefficiencies in the transmission of...
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