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Entry, Exit, and the Determinants of Market Structure
Dunne, Timothy - 2009
Market structure is determined by the entry and exit decisions of individual producers. These decisions are driven by expectations of future profits which, in turn, depend on the nature of competition within the market. In this paper we estimate a dynamic, structural model of entry and exit in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013156542
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Oligopoly Deregulation in General Equilibrium : A Tax Neutralization Result
Metcalf, Gilbert E.; Norman, George - 2021
We examine the interplay between market structure and the form that commodity taxation should take in a general equilibrium model in which firms produce differentiated products and so are able to exert market power. Our analysis takes account of two important recent developments that affect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013237237
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Vertical Integration and Market Structure
Bresnahan, Timothy - 2014
Contractual theories of vertical integration derive firm boundaries as an efficient response to market transaction costs. These theories predict a relationship between underlying features of transactions and observed integration decisions. There has been some progress in testing these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013066521
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Price-Cost Margins, Exports and Productivity Growth : With an Application to Canadian Industries
Bernstein, Jeffrey I.; Mohnen, Pierre - 2022
machinery, electrical products and chemical products industries. The results show that there is significant oligopoly power in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324015
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Did Robert Bork Understate the Competitive Impact of Mergers? Evidence from Consummated Mergers
Ashenfelter, Orley - 2014
of oligopoly concerns resulting from mergers. In this paper, we provide a critique of Bork's views on merger policy from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013057828
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Allocative Efficiency, Mark-Ups, and the Welfare Gains from Trade
Holmes, Thomas - 2014
determines how changes in trade frictions affect allocative efficiency in an oligopoly model of international trade, decomposing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013063359
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Oligopoly in International Trade : Rise, Fall and Resurgence
Head, Keith - 2017
1980s. Subsequent literature for the most part kept imperfect competition but jettisoned oligopoly. Instead, as the …. The use of oligopoly in trade models has been criticized for reasons that we argue are unpersuasive. Renewed incorporation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012949400
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Endogenous Market Structures in International Trade
Horstmann, Ignatius J.; Markusen, James R. - 2021
Almost all of the large literature on international trade with imperfect competition assumes exogenous market structures. The purpose of this paper is to develop a simple model that generates alternative market structures as Nash equilibria for different parameterizations of the basic model....
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Shareholder Democracy in Canada
Morck, Randall - 2010
. One option, for which Canada is relatively well prepared, is the British model of activist independent institutional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135809
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Cost of Capital for the United States, Japan, and Canada : An Attempt at Measurement Based on Individual Company Records and Aggregate National Acccoun
Ando, Albert; Hancock, John; Sawchuk, Gary David - 2021
countries such as the US, Canada, and Japan. Attempts are made to carry out the measurement based both on the accounting records … depreciation and before taxes is found to fluctuate around 10-11% without a persistent trend. For Canada, the indivi- dual company … Canada supple- mented by some unpublished data supplied by Statistics Canada suggest that the cost of capital in Canada is …
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