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Hachem, Kinda - 2016

We show that stricter bank liquidity standards can trigger unintended credit booms when there is heterogeneity in interbank pricing power. Attempts to circumvent the regulation change the allocation of savings across institutions, eliciting strategic responses that also change the allocation of...

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Trade Policy and Market Power : the Case of the Us Steel Industry

Blonigen, Bruce A. - 2008

A primary function of trade policy is to restrict imports to benefit the targeted domestic sector. However, a well-established theoretical literature highlights that the form of trade policy (e.g., quotas versus tariffs) can have a significant impact on how much trade policy affects firms'...

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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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Are Health Insurance Markets Competitive?

Dafny, Leemore S. - 2009

Although the vast majority of Americans have private health insurance, researchers focus almost exclusively on public provision. Data on the private insurance sector is extremely difficult to obtain because health insurance contracts are complex, renegotiated annually, and not subject to...

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Some Economic Aspects of Antitrust Analysis in Dynamically Competitive Industries

Schmalensee, Richard; Evans, David S. - 2021

Competition in many important industries centers on investment in intellectual property. Firms engage in dynamic …, Schumpeterian competition for the market, through sequential winner-take-all races to produce drastic innovations, rather than … through static price/output competition in the market. Sound antitrust economic analysis of such industries requires explicit …

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Kill Zone

Kamepalli, Sai Krishna; Rajan, Raghuram G.; Zingales, Luigi - 2022

We study why acquisitions of entrant firms by an incumbent can deter innovation and entry in the digital platform industry, where there are strong network externalities and some customers face switching costs. A high probability of an acquisition induces some potential early adopters to wait for...

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Evidence on Growth, Increasing Returns and the Extent of the Market

Beaulieu, Joseph - 2011

We examine two sets of economies, (19th century U.S. states and 20th century less developed countries) where growth rates are positively correlated with initial levels of development to document how these dynamic increasing returns operate. We find that open economies do not display a positive...

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Gravity, Scale and Exchange Rates

Anderson, James E. - 2013

We develop a structural gravity model that introduces scale effects in bilateral trade. Scale effects and incomplete passthrough give two channels through which exchange rates have real effects on trade patterns. Estimates from Canadian provincial trade data identify these effects through their...

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Internal Increasing Returns to Scale and Economic Growth

List, John A. - 2012

final goods. We show that incorporating oligopolistic competition in the sector producing finals goods into a general …

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Economies of Scale in the Household : Puzzles and Patterns from the American Past

Logan, Trevon - 2008

Household economies of scale arise when households with multiple members share public goods, making larger households better off at lower per capita expenditures. While estimates of household economies of scale are critical for measuring income and living standards, we do not know how these...

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