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at which they upgrade the quality of their products. We analyze the effect of import competition on quality upgrading …
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taxation, can generate a loss of competitiveness (defined as an increase in relative unit labor costs for tradable goods), an …
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industrial policies allocated to competitive sectors or that foster competition in a sector increase productivity growth. We … measure competition using the Lerner Index and include as industrial policies subsidies, tax holidays, loans, and tariffs …. Measures to foster competition include policies that are more dispersed across firms in a sector or measures that encourage …
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The economic costs of environmental regulations have been widely debated since the U.S. began to restrict pollution emissions more than four decades ago. Using detailed production data from nearly 1.2 million plant observations drawn from the 1972-1993 Annual Survey of Manufactures, we estimate...
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host-country research and development effort in response to foreign competition, is one of three examining the impact of …
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is explained in this paper using a competitive model in which innovation opportunities induce firms to enter, but in …
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This paper contains the basic statistical material upon which Effective Rates of Protection (ERPs), Domestic Resource Costs (DRCs), and crop acreage responses were calculated by the authors for their volume on Egypt in the NBER project Foreign Trade Regimes and Economic Development. This...
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We examine competition amongst ridesharing platforms where firms compete by choosing both the price of rides and the … involve monopoly or competition under various multihoming regimes, depending on the density of the city, and the relative …
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competition between the two channels, the paper uses a two step approach. First, it fits hedonic regressions for the prices paid …
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We examine the factors underlying buyer demand for large Information Technology solutions in order to understand the competitive crash in large scale commercial computing. We examine individual buyer data from two periods. The first is in the mid 1980's, late in the period of a mature and stable...
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