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Regulation, Market Structure and Performance in Telecommunications
Boylaud, Olivier - 2000
The paper uses an original international database on regulation, market structure and performance in the … telecommunications industry to investigate the effects of entry liberalisation and privatisation on productivity, prices and quality of … 1991-1997 period. The data on regulation and market structure is analysed by means of factor analysis techniques in order …
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Raising Economic Performance by Fostering Product Market Competition in Germany
Fuentes, Andrés - 2006
objectives in energy market regulation could be achieved at lower cost. In the telecommunications industry, competition in the …Much scope remains to make regulation of product markets more conducive to competition ? notwithstanding progress in … local loop can be strengthened. Regulation of the liberal professions is among the most restrictive in the OECD. Entry …
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Product Market Regulation and Wage Premia in Europe and North America : An Empirical Investigation
Jean, Sébastien - 2002
worker (age, sex, education and type of contract) in 12 European and North-American countries. The effects of regulation on … these wage premia are estimated by panel data regression techniques. We find that product market regulation restricting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012445912
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Enhancing Turkey's Growth Prospects by Improving Formal Sector Business Conditions
Gönenç, Rauf - 2007
Turkey's business sector has achieved high growth over the past few years and - on average - has coped well with increased competition. However, some labour-intensive sectors lost competitiveness prior to the currency depreciation in mid-2006 and faced employment losses, raising political...
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Competition, Innovation and Productivity Growth : A Review of Theory and Evidence
Ahn, Sanghoon - 2002
static gains observed in the short run since firms will continue to innovate in ways they would not have under regulation. By …
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After the Telecommunications Bubble
Lenain, Patrick - 2003
particular in the telecommunications sector. Regulatory reforms and technological innovation fuelled expectations of robust …
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Mark-Up Ratios in Manufacturing Industries : Estimates for 14 OECD Countries
Oliveira Martins, Joaquim - 1996
This paper provides estimates of mark-ups of product prices over marginal costs for 36 manufacturing industries in 14 OECD countries over the 1970- 1992 period. The estimates are based on the methodology put forward by Roeger (1995), extended to include intermediate inputs. After a discussion of...
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The Levels and Cyclical Behaviour of Mark-ups Across Countries and Market Structures
Oliveira Martins, Joaquim - 1999
In this paper, we present estimates of the mark-up of product price over marginal costs for the US manufacturing industries over the 1970-1992 period. The paper extends the analysis used in previous studies based on nominal productivity residuals by considering intermediate inputs and cyclical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012444240
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Market Structure, International Trade and Relative Wages
Oliveira Martins, Joaquim - 1993
This paper investigates the link between trade flows and relative wages on a cross-section of 22 sectors in 12 OECD countries. Industries are classified according to stylised facts about market structure (fragmentation, segmentation and degree of product differentiation). Next, the import...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012447131
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Oil Price Developments : Drivers, Economic Consequences and Policy Responses
Brook, Anne-Marie; Price, Robert; Sutherland, Douglas; … - 2004
This paper analyses the factors influencing the price of oil and its likely evolution over the next quarter century. It begins by investigating the fundamental forces shaping long-term oil price developments, highlighting the importance of growth-led demand for oil, particularly that emanating...
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