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Privatisation in Developing Countries: What Are the Lessons of Recent Experience?
Estrin, Saul; Pelletier, Adeline - 2016
This paper reviews recent empirical evidence on privatisation in developing countries. Particular emphasis is placed on new areas of research such as the distributional impacts of privatisation. Overall, the literature now reflects a more cautious and nuanced evaluation of privatisation. Thus it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584612
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When the Baby Cries at Night: Inelastic Buyers in Non-Competitive Markets
Calzolari, Giacomo; Ichino, Andrea; Manaresi, Francesco; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We investigate empirically how sellers react to changes in the population of their consumers, identifying the effects of demand composition and demand size with limited information on costs. We show how pharmacists in Italy selectively increase the price of some products when they observe in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959741
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Tax Policy, Location Choices, and Market Structure
Pfann, Gerard A.; van Kranenburg, Hans - 2002
A structural model of entry and fiscal policy is presented. It shows that taxation of variable production costs can increase product prices, lower competition, and reduce the availability of new products in small markets. The model?s test is based on a unique nationwide fiscal experiment. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274360
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Efficiency Wages in Cournot-Oligopoly
de Pinto, Marco; Goerke, Laszlo - 2019
In a Cournot-oligopoly with free but costly entry and business stealing, output per firm is too low and the number of competitors excessive, assuming labor productivity to depend on the number of employees only or to be constant. However, a firm can raise the productivity of its workforce by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012059081
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Tax Policy, Location Choices, and Market Structure
Pfann, Gerard A.; van Kranenburg, Hans - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
A structural model of entry and fiscal policy is presented. It shows that taxation of variable production costs can increase product prices, lower competition, and reduce the availability of new products in small markets. The model’s test is based on a unique nationwide fiscal experiment. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566538
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When the Baby Cries at Night: Inelastic Buyers in Non-Competitive Markets
Calzolari, Giacomo; Ichino, Andrea; Manaresi, Francesco; … - 2014
We investigate empirically how sellers react to changes in the population of their consumers, identifying the effects of demand composition and demand size with limited information on costs. We show how pharmacists in Italy selectively increase the price of some products when they observe in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010421153
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Consumer Search Costs and Preferences on the Internet
Jolivet, Grégory; Turon, Hélène - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We analyse consumers' search and purchase decisions on an Internet platform. Using a rich dataset on all adverts posted … and transactions made on a major French Internet platform (PriceMinister), we show evidence of substantial price …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011078385
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Consumer Search Costs and Preferences on the Internet
Jolivet, Grégory; Turon, Hélène - 2014
We analyse consumers' search and purchase decisions on an Internet platform. Using a rich dataset on all adverts posted … and transactions made on a major French Internet platform (PriceMinister), we show evidence of substantial price …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010468167
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Fast-food restaurant advertising on television and its influence on youth body composition
Grossman, Michael; Tekin, Erdal; Wada, Roy - 2012
We examine the effects of fast-food restaurant advertising on television on the body composition of adolescents as … from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 and data on local fast-food restaurant advertising on television from … Competitive Media Reporting. Exposure to fast-food restaurant advertising on television causes statistically significant increases …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291410
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Between agora and shopping mall
Falkinger, Josef - 2008
of individuals to information. Goods advertising is competing with political information for people's attention. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269262