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Modeling Processor Market Power and the Incidence of Agricultural Policy : A Non-parametric Approach

Goodhue, Rachael E. - 2011

This paper examines interactions between market power and agricultural policy in the U.S. wheat flour milling industry using a non-parametric approach. The analysis focuses on marketing loan and pre-1986 deficiency payment programs; farmers' payments from these programs are dependent on whether...

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Food vs. Fuel? Impacts of Petroleum Shipments on Agricultural Prices

Bushnell, James B. - 2017

Grain shippers and political figures in North Dakota and nearby states have voiced concern that the dramatic increases in shipments of crude oil by rail have caused service delays and higher costs. We investigate the potential impact of crude shipments on grain markets accounting for harvest...

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How Large Are the Gains from Economic Integration? Theory and Evidence from U.S. Agriculture, 1880-1997

Costinot, Arnaud - 2016

In this paper we develop a new approach to measuring the gains from economic integration based on a generalization of the Ricardian model in which heterogeneous factors of production are allocated to multiple sectors in multiple local markets based on comparative advantage. We implement this...

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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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Regulatory Costs of Being Public : Evidence from Bunching Estimation

Ewens, Michael; Xiao, Kairong; Xu, Ting - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

. Consistent with firms seeking to avoid costly regulation, we document significant bunching around multiple regulatory thresholds …

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Designing Fuel-Economy Standards in Light of Electric Vehicles

Gillingham, Kenneth - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Electric vehicles are declining in cost so rapidly that they may claim a large share of the vehicle market by 2030. This paper examines a set of practical regulatory design considerations for fuel-economy standards or greenhouse gas standards in the context of highly uncertain electric vehicle...

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