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How Far Goods Travel : Global Transport and Supply Chains from 1965-2020
Ganapati, Sharat; Wong, Woan Foong - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper considers the evolution of global transportation usage over the past half century and its implications for supply chains. Transportation usage per unit of real output has more than doubled as costs decreased by a third. Participation of emerging economies in world trade and...
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Amazon Self-preferencing in the Shadow of the Digital Markets Act
Waldfogel, Joel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Regulators around the world are discussing, or taking action to limit, self-preferencing by large platforms. This paper explores Amazon's search rankings of its own products as the European Union's Digital Markets Act (DMA) was coming into effect. Using data on over 8 million Amazon search...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014528339
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The Competition Between Competition Rules
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 1999
Open borders imply systems competition. This paper studies the implications of systems competition for the national … competition rules. It is shown that an equilibrium where all countries retain their antitrust laws does not exist, since …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471517
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The Competitive Effects of Transmission Capacity in a Deregulated Electricity Industry
Borenstein, Severin - 1997
capacity on competition among" generators. We show that there may be no relationship between the effect of a transmission line …" in spurring competition and the actual electricity that flows on the line. We then investigate the" equilibria that are … relatively small investments in transmission may yield surprisingly large" payoffs in terms of increased competition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472520
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Survival of the Fittest or the Fattest? Exit and Financing in the Trucking Industry
Zingales, Luigi - 1997
This paper studies the impact that capital market imperfections have on the natural" selection of the most efficient firms by estimating the effect of the pre-deregulation level of" leverage on the survival of trucking firms after the Carter deregulation. Highly leveraged" carriers are less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472539
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Rise of Bank Competition : Evidence from Banking Deregulation in China
Gao, Haoyu - 2019
Using proprietary individual level loan data, this paper explores the economic consequences of the 2009 bank entry deregulation in China. Such deregulation leads to higher screening standards, lower interest rates, and lower delinquency rates for corporate loans from entrant banks. Consequently,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479745
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Banking Deregulations, Financing Constraints, and Firm Entry Size
Kerr, William - 2009
We examine the effect of US branch banking deregulations on the entry size of new firms using micro-data from the US Census Bureau. We find that the average entry size for startups did not change following the deregulations. However, among firms that survived at least four years, a greater...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463150
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Vertical Arrangements, Market Structure, and Competition An Analysis of Restructured U.S. Electricity Markets
Bushnell, James B. - 2007
This paper examines vertical arrangements in electricity markets. Vertically integrated wholesalers, or those with long-term contracts, have less incentive to raise wholesale prices when retail prices are determined beforehand. For three restructured markets, we simulate prices that define...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465139
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Reliability and Competitive Electricity Markets
Joskow, Paul L. - 2004
Despite all of the talk about deregulation' of the electricity sector, a large number of non-market mechanisms have been imposed on emerging competitive wholesale and retail markets. These mechanisms include spot market price caps, operating reserve requirements, non-price rationing protocols,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468221
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Competitive Liberalization and a US-SACU FTA
Whalley, John - 2003
competition among large countries (US/EU) to negotiate preferential arrangements with smaller countries or regions will lower …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468526