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Political Discretion and Antitrust Policy : Evidence from the Assassination of President Mckinley
Baker, Richard B. - 2018
We study the importance of discretion in antitrust enforcement by analyzing the response of asset prices to the sudden accession of Theodore Roosevelt to the presidency. During McKinley's term in office the largest wave of merger activity in American history occurred, and his administration did...
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Competition Laws and Corporate Innovation
Levine, Ross; Lin, Chen; Wei, Lai; Xie, Wensi - 2022
A central debate in economics concerns the relationship between competition and innovation, with some stressing that competition discourages innovation by reducing post-innovation rents and others emphasizing that more contestable markets spur currently dominant and other firms to invest more in...
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Has New York Become Less Competitive in Global Markets? Evaluating Foreign Listing Choices Over Time
Doidge, Craig - 2010
We study the determinants and consequences of cross-listings on the New York and London stock exchanges from 1990 to … 2005. This investigation enables us to evaluate the relative benefits of New York and London exchange listings and to … in London. This decline in cross-listings is explained by changes in firm characteristics rather than by changes in the …
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Poultry in Motion : A Study of International Trade Finance Practices
Antras, Pol - 2011
This paper analyzes the financing terms that support international trade and sheds light on how and why these arrangements affect trade. Using detailed transaction level data from a U.S. based exporter of frozen and refrigerated food products, primarily poultry, it begins by describing broad...
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Coercive Contract Enforcement : Law and the Labor Market in 19th Century Industrial Britain
Naidu, Suresh - 2011
British Master and Servant law made employee contract breach a criminal offense until 1875. We develop a contracting model generating equilibrium contract breach and prosecutions, then exploit exogenous changes in output prices to examine the effects of labor demand shocks on prosecutions....
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Gun for Hire : Does Delegated Enforcement Crowd Out Peer Punishment in Giving to Public Goods?
Andreoni, James - 2011
This paper compares two methods to encourage socially optimal provision of a public good. We compare the efficacy of vigilante justice, as represented by peer-to-peer punishment, to delegated policing, as represented by the "hired gun" mechanism, to deter free riding and improve group welfare....
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The Effect of Allowing Pollution Offsets with Imperfect Enforcement
Sigman, Hilary - 2014
Public policies for pollution control, including climate change policies, sometimes allow polluters in one sector subject to an emissions cap to offset excessive emissions in that sector with pollution abatement in another sector. The government may often find it more costly to verify offset...
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Enforcement and Immigrant Location Choice
Watson, Tara - 2013
This paper investigates the effect of local immigration enforcement regimes on the migration decisions of the foreign born. Specifically, the analysis uses individual level American Community Survey data to examine the effect of recent 287(g) agreements which allow state and local law...
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Dumping and Antidumping Duties
Blonigen, Bruce A. - 2015
The majority of the world's countries have antidumping (AD) statutes in place, hundreds of AD actions occur annually across these countries, and AD criteria and procedures have been codified in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and its successor, the World Trade Organization. AD's...
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The Interaction and Sequencing of Policy Reforms
Asturias, Jose - 2016
In what order should a developing country adopt policy reforms? Do some policies complement each other? Do others substitute for each other? To address these questions, we develop a two-country dynamic general equilibrium model with entry and exit of firms that are monopolistic competitors. The...
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