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Competition Reform and Household Welfare : A Microsimulation Analysis of the Telecommunication Sector in Ethiopia
Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos; Araar, Abdelkrim; … - 2021
This paper presents a novel method for estimating the likely welfare effects of competition reforms for both current … consumers are more likely to reap the benefits of greater competition. This method represents a powerful tool for supporting the … analysis of competition reforms in developing countries, particularly in sectors known for excluding significant segments of …
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Are Jobs More Polarized in ICT Firms?
Bockerman, Petri - 2016
We perform decompositions and regression analyses that test the routinization hypothesis and implied job polarization at the firm level. Prior studies have focused on the aggregate, industry or local levels. Our results for the abstract and routine occupation groups are consistent with the...
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Terrorism and the Media : The Effect of US Television Coverage on Al-Qaeda Attacks
Jetter, Michael - 2017
Can media coverage of a terrorist organization encourage their execution of further attacks? This paper analyzes the day-to-day news coverage of Al-Qaeda on US television since 9/11 and the group's terrorist strikes. To isolate causality, I use disaster deaths worldwide as an exogenous variation...
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The Effect of Media Coverage on Mass Shootings
Jetter, Michael - 2018
Can media coverage of shooters encourage future mass shootings? We explore the link between the day-to-day prime time television news coverage of shootings on ABC World News Tonight and subsequent mass shootings in the US from January 1, 2013 to June 23, 2016. To circumvent latent endogeneity...
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Terrorism and the Media
Jetter, Michael - 2014
This paper systematically analyzes media attention devoted to terrorist attacks worldwide between 1998 and 2012. Several aspects are related to predicting media attention. First, suicide missions receive significantly more coverage, which could explain their increased popularity among terrorist...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046236
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The Italian Job : Match Rigging, Career Concerns and Media Concentration in 'Serie A'
Boeri, Tito; Severgnini, Battista - 2021
This paper contributes to the literature on competition and corruption, by drawing on records from Calciopoli, a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324926
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Who Lives in the C-Suite? Organizational Structure and the Division of Labor in Top Management
Guadalupe, Maria - 2012
team composition, firm diversification, and IT investments – which arguably alter returns to exploiting synergies through …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104934
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Stages of Diversification in a Neoclassical World
Batista, Catia - 2013
Recent research has documented a U-shaped industrial concentration curve over an economy's development path. How far can neoclassical trade theory take us in explaining this pattern? We estimate the production side of the Heckscher-Ohlin model using industry data on 44 developed and developing...
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Household Asset Holding Diversification in Australia
Mariotti, Francesco - 2014
We explore asset holding diversification by Australian households, in particular, the household asset diversification … lower extent of, asset holding diversification …
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Can the UAE Avoid the Oil Curse by Economic Diversification?
Haouas, Ilham - 2014
countries, especially those in the G7, which possess huge reserves of oil wealth but have undertaken economic diversification to … suggested. The analysis shows that greater efforts are needed to stimulate the diversification of the production base by …
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