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Using a general-equilibrium simulation model featuring nominal rigidities and monopolistic competition in product and … labor markets, this paper estimates the macroeconomic benefits and international spillovers of an increase in competition …, greater competition produces large effects on macroeconomic performance, as measured by standard indicators. In particular, we …
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The basic competitive model with freely available technology is suited for static industries but misleading as applied to major innovative economies for which development of new technologies equals in magnitude around 10% of gross domestic investment. We distinguish free generic technology from...
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We present a structural model of firm growth, learning, and survival and consider its identification and estimation. In the model, entrepreneurs have private and possibly error-ridden observations of persistent and transitory shocks to profit. We demonstrate that the model's parameters can be...
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monopolistic competition framework where, in addition to choosing price, firms simultaneously choose quality. We allow countries to …
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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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We formulate a two-country model with monopolistic competition and heterogeneous firms to reconsider labor market …
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In this paper we develop a monopolistic competition model where firms exercise their market power across multiple …
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This paper explains prices, output and employment adjustment In an open economy characterized by a monopolistic competitive market structure where goods prices are flexible while wages are determined by contracts that pre-set the wage path for several periods. The paper solves the rational...
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We prove that, for general demand and cost conditions and market structures, the fraction of first-best surplus that a monopolist is unable to extract in a market provides a tight upper bound on the relative distortions arising from firms' equilibrium decisions at all margins (entry and...
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trade affect the toughness of competition, which then feeds back into the selection of heterogeneous producers and exporters … - and endogenous differences in the 'toughness' of competition across markets - in terms of the number and average …
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