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How to Auction an Essential Facility When Underhand Integration is Possible

Engel, Eduardo M.R.A. - 2001

There are many industries in which potentially competitive segments require services provided by natural monopoly bottlenecks (essential facilities). Since it is difficult to regulate these facilities, developing countries are using Demsetz auctions, where the facility is awarded to the firm...

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Hong Kong's Business Regulation in Transition

Wu, Changqi - 1997

, deregulation of public transport is taking shape, and the schemes of control for electricity suppliers are candidates for reform …. In this paper, we review the evolution of business regulation in Hong Kong, analyze the salient features of its scheme of … control regulation and evaluate the impact of transition from regulation to competition. To provide a sharp contrast between …

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The Generalized War of Attrition

Bulow, Jeremy - 1997

We generalize the War of Attrition model to allow for N + K firms competing for N prizes. Two special cases are of particular interest. First, if firms continue to pay their full costs after dropping out (as in a standard-setting context), each firm's exit time is independent both of K and of...

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Patent Rights, Product Market Reforms, and Innovation

Aghion, Philippe - 2013

positively to the product market reform in industries of countries where patent rights are strong, not where these are weak. The … positive response to the reform is more pronounced in industries in which innovators rely more on patenting than in other …

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The Euro and the global crises : finding the balance between short term stabilization and forward looking reforms

Aizenman, Joshua - 2012

This paper analyzes reforms and adjustments in the context of the Euro and the global financial crises. Taking the perspective of the evolutionary approach to institutions, the formation of a new currency area is not unidirectional. The process leading to the euro is an example of a common...

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Assessing job flows across countries : the role of industry, firm size and regulations

Haltiwanger, John C. - 2008

"This paper analyzes job flows in a sample of 16 industrial and emerging economies over the past decade, exploiting a harmonized firm-level dataset. It shows that industry and firm size effects (and especially firm size) account for a large fraction in the overall variability in job flows....

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Business environment and firm entry : evidence from international data

Klapper, Leora - 2004

"Using a comprehensive database of firms in Western and Eastern Europe, we study how the business environment in a country drives the creation of new firms. Our focus is on regulations governing entry. We find entry regulations hamper entry, especially in industries that naturally should have...

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Coase v. the Coasians

Johnson, Simon - 1999

judicially enforced private contracts, judicially enforced laws, or even government regulation, may be the cheapest way to bring … strategies may sometimes be the best. This paper compares the regulation of financial markets in Poland and the Czech Republic in … the Czech Republic, hands-off regulation was associated with a near collapse of the stock market. These episodes …

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Government as a Discriminating Monopolist in the Financial Market : The Case of China

Gordon, Roger H. - 1999

To date, China has maintained a variety of restrictions on its financial markets. In addition to imposing capital controls and regulating interest rates, the government controls both the set of firms that can sell equity on the domestic or foreign stock markets, and the amount they can sell....

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Energy and Environmental Markets, Industrial Organization, and Regulation

Kellogg, Ryan; Reguant, Mar - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

markets and environmental regulation. We emphasize the substantive contributions of recent papers while also highlighting how … the topics examined by this literature--especially auctions, investment, productivity and innovation, and regulation …

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