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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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Product Market Deregulation and the U.S. Employment Miracle
Ebell, Monique - 2006
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012782768
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Search Frictions, Competing Mechanisms and Optimal Market Segmentation
Cai, Xiaoming - 2016
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012990861
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Bribes vs. Taxes : Market Structure and Incentives
Amodio, Francesco - 2018
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012914336
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Granular Search, Market Structure, and Wages
Jarosch, Gregor - 2019
40 percent of the observed decline in the labor share from 1997 to 2015. Mergers decrease competition for workers and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012863784
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Scale Economies Can Offset the Benefits of Competition : Evidence from a School Consolidation Reform in a Universal Voucher System
de Haan, Monique - 2011
context scale economies dominated the effects of choice and competition. This points to an often ignored trade-off between … scale and competition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129092
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The Emergence of Male Leadership in Competitive Environments
Reuben, Ernesto - 2011
We present evidence from an experiment in which groups select a leader to compete against the leaders of other groups in a real-effort task that they have all performed in the past. We find that women are selected much less often as leaders than is suggested by their individual past performance....
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The Distribution of Earnings Under Monopsonistic/Polistic Competition
Thisse, Jacques-François - 2010
, firms are price-makers and wage-setters. Our setting combines monopolistic and monopsonistic competition, thus encapsulating …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139040
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Performance-Related Funding of Universities : Does More Competition Lead to Grade Inflation?
Bauer, Thomas K. - 2011
financing systems aimed at increasing the competition between universities by making their pubic funds dependent on their … increased competition between universities causes grade inflation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118471
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Add-On Pricing, Naive Consumers, and the Hidden Welfare Costs of Education
Kosfeld, Michael - 2011
Previous research shows that firms shroud high add-on prices in competitive markets with naive consumers leading to inefficiency. We analyze the effects of regulatory intervention via educating naive consumers on equilibrium prices and welfare. Our model allows firms to shroud, unshroud, or...
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