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Aghion, Philippe - 2012

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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Industrial Policy and Downstream Export Performance

Blonigen, Bruce A. - 2013

Industrial policies (IPs) include such varying practices as production subsidies, export subsidies, and import protection, and are commonly used by countries to promote targeted sectors. However, such policies can have significant impacts on sectors other than those targeted by the IPs,...

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China's Industrial Policy : An Empirical Evaluation

Barwick, Panle Jia; Kalouptsidi, Myrto; Zahur, Nahim - 2022

Despite the historic prevalence of industrial policy and its current popularity, few empirical studies directly evaluate its welfare consequences. This paper examines an important industrial policy in China in the 2000s, aiming to propel the country’s shipbuilding industry to the largest...

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The Welfare State and Competitiveness

Alesina, Alberto F. - 2010

In all modern industrial countries, redistributive expenditures are a larger component of the government budget than consumption of goods and services. In this paper, we use a general equilibrium, two- country model with exportables, importables and nontradables to study redistribution across...

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The Effects of Environmental Regulation on the Competitiveness of U.S. Manufacturing

Greenstone, Michael - 2014

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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Import Competition and Quality Upgrading

Amiti, Mary - 2014

at which they upgrade the quality of their products. We analyze the effect of import competition on quality upgrading …

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Vertical Arrangements, Market Structure, and Competition an Analysis of Restructured U.S. Electricity Markets

Bushnell, James - 2007

This paper examines vertical arrangements in electricity markets. Vertically integrated wholesalers, or those with long-term contracts, have less incentive to raise wholesale prices when retail prices are determined beforehand. For three restructured markets, we simulate prices that define...

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The Antebellum U.S. Iron Industry : Domestic Production and Foreign Competition

Davis, Joseph H. - 2007

1827. These estimates are used to assess the vulnerability of the antebellum iron industry to foreign competition and the …

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Health Plan Payment in U.S. Marketplaces : Regulated Competition with a Weak Mandate

Layton, Timothy J. - 2017

of the individual insurance market, the Marketplaces invoke many of the principles of regulated competition including … the tools of regulated competition. We then discuss ways in which the Marketplace model deviates from the more …

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Market Power and Price Discrimination in the U.S. Market for Higher Education

Epple, Dennis - 2017

The main purpose of this paper is to estimate an equilibrium model of private and public school competition that can …

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