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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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Foreign Competition and the UK
Lake, Arthur W. - 2021
host-country research and development effort in response to foreign competition, is one of three examining the impact of …
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The Life-Cycle of a Competitive Industry
Jovanovic, Boyan; MacDonald, Glenn - 2021
Firm numbers first rise, and then fall as the typical industry evolves. This nonmonotonicity in the number of producers is explained in this paper using a competitive model in which innovation opportunities induce firms to enter, but in which a firm's failure to implement new technology causes...
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A Theory of Multihoming in Rideshare Competition
Bryan, Kevin - 2018
We examine competition amongst ridesharing platforms where firms compete by choosing both the price of rides and the … involve monopoly or competition under various multihoming regimes, depending on the density of the city, and the relative …
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Industrial Policy and Competition
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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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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Protection and Competitiveness in Egyptian Agriculture and Industry
Hansen, Bent; Nashashibi, Karim A. - 2021
This paper contains the basic statistical material upon which Effective Rates of Protection (ERPs), Domestic Resource Costs (DRCs), and crop acreage responses were calculated by the authors for their volume on Egypt in the NBER project Foreign Trade Regimes and Economic Development. This...
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Competition in the Computer Industry
Goolsbee, Austan - 2021
competition between the two channels, the paper uses a two step approach. First, it fits hedonic regressions for the prices paid …
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The Competitive Crash in Large-Scale Commercial Computing
Bresnahan, Timothy; Greenstein, Shane M. - 2021
We examine the factors underlying buyer demand for large Information Technology solutions in order to understand the competitive crash in large scale commercial computing. We examine individual buyer data from two periods. The first is in the mid 1980's, late in the period of a mature and stable...
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