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Fixed Costs and the Product Market Treatment of Preference Minorities
Berry, Steven - 2014
It is well documented that, in the presence of substantial fixed costs, markets offer preference majorities more variety than preference minorities. This fact alone, however, does not demonstrate the market outcome is in any way biased against preference minorities. In this paper, we clarify the...
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From Nothing to Too Much : Regulatory Reform in Greece
Hatzis, Aristides N.; Nalpantidou, Sonia - 2013
make the situation worse, an impact assessment analysis should accompany every law and every regulation of every Ministry …
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How Do Hospitals Respond to Market Entry? Evidence from a Deregulated Market for Cardiac Revascularization
Li, Suhui - 2013
Regulatory entry barriers to hospital service markets, namely Certificate of Need (CON) regulations, are enforced in many states; although no longer federally mandated, policy makers in other states are considering reinstating CON policies in tandem with service expansions mandated under the...
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These are the Good Old Days : Foreign Entry and the Mexican Banking System
Haber, Stephen - 2013
bank regulation, which will affect competition and stability in the long term, outside the period that may be observed …
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Deregulation, Misallocation, and Size : Evidence from India
Alfaro, Laura - 2014
This paper examines the impact of the deregulation of compulsory industrial licensing in India on firm-size dynamics and the reallocation of resources within industries over time. Following deregulation, we find that the extent of resource misallocation declines and a considerable thickening of...
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Do Entry Regulations Deter Entrepreneurship and Job Creation? Evidence from Recent Reforms in Portugal
Branstetter, Lee - 2014
Recent research has suggested that the reduction of entry regulation can promote firm entry and job creation, but …
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Banking Deregulations, Financing Constraints, and Firm Entry Size
Kerr, William - 2014
We examine the effect of US branch banking deregulations on the entry size of new firms using micro-data from the US Census Bureau. We find that the average entry size for startups did not change following the deregulations. However, among firms that survived at least four years, a greater...
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Heterogeneity in the Effect of Regulation on Entrepreneurship and Entry Size
Ardagna, Silvia - 2009
the heterogeneity of the effect of entry, contract enforcement regulation, and financial development on both the decision … the level of regulation and financial development and some individual characteristics that are important determinants of … entrepreneurship, such as gender, business skills, and social networks. We find that entry regulation moderates the effect of business …
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Market Reforms at the Zero Lower Bound
Cacciatore, Matteo - 2017
This paper studies the impact of product and labor market reforms when the economy faces major slack and a binding constraint on monetary policy easing---such as the zero lower bound. To this end, we build a two-country model with endogenous producer entry, labor market frictions, and nominal...
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Market Reforms in the Time of Imbalance
Cacciatore, Matteo - 2016
We study the consequences of product and labor market reforms in a two-country model with endogenous producer entry and labor market frictions. We focus on the role of business cycle conditions and external constraints at the time of reform implementation (or of a credible commitment to it) in...
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