Bulgaria signed the Europe Association Agreement (EAA) in 1995 and the European Union accession treaty in 2005 …. Accession had the effect of increasing FDI in Bulgaria. We analyze World Bank BEEPS firm level data for 2007 to better … understand characteristics and performance of foreign firms in Bulgaria. We estimate linear probability and logit models to …

satisfaction grow in market size. We document this phenomenon across 246 US radio markets. By a mechanism that we term 'preference … externalities', an increase in the size of the market brings forth additional products valued by others with similar tastes. But who … possibly reduced) by the size of the white population. Consequently, small groups receive less variety from the market. Forces …

behavior in the car market. We show that a social planner can use leasing contracts to improve welfare but they are imperfect … tools; they cannot generally achieve first best while other mechanisms can. We also show that a producer with market power … can benefit from leasing contracts for two reasons: better pricing of the option of keeping the used good, and market …