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time effects. All countries display a massive reallocation of resources, with the entry and exit of many firms in all … market contestability. There are also large differences across groups of countries. While entry and exit rates are fairly … similar across industrial countries, post entry performance differs markedly between Europe and the U.S., a potential …
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disequilibrium but little empirical research has examined firm entry and exit in this context. We redress this by modelling the … interrelationship between firm entry and exit in disequilibrium. Introducing a new methodology we investigate whether this … in undershoots a lack of competition between incumbent firms contributes to restoration of equilibrium (creating room for …
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This paper conducts the first general equilibrium analysis of the role of entry, exit and profits in industry dynamics …, to discriminate between three aspects of industry dynamics: the effect of entry and exit on market equilibrium, duration … simultaneous equilibrium model of profits, entry and exit. We find that indeed entrants play an entrepreneurial function causing …
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underestimate the true trading character of an economy. Furthermore, we find that in enhancing transactions cities or agglomerations … remain important, suggesting that face-to-face trade remains an important element of modern transactions. In contrast to the …
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We measure the impact of low cost transport by rail in Malawi on the dispersion of agricultural commodities prices across markets, by exploiting the quasi experimental design of the nearly total collapse of domestic transport by rail in January 2003, due to the destruction of a railway bridge at...
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is necessary to increase expenditure on R&D for business enterprises and higher education, exports and technology. If the …
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is necessary to increase expenditure on R&D for business enterprises and higher education, exports and technology. If the …
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I develop an index for economic integration accounting for its gradual and bilateral nature: the Gradual And Bilateral Integration (GABI) index. The graduality captures differences in the depth and path of five stages in economic integration and is an improvement over the use of binary dummy...
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an 'incumbent bidder' that owns a complement or substitute. With an auction on the transfer (i.e. payment) to the … government, the incumbent is advantaged.If the government regulates the market with an auction on the price asked to consumers …, it depends who is advantaged. With complements, the incumbent is advantaged: it can set a lower price on the new …
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We investigate the nature of market failure in a dynamic version ofAkerlof (1970) where identicalcohorts of a durable good enter the market over time. In the dynamicmodel, equilibria withqualitatively different properties emerge. Typically, in equilibriaof the dynamic model, sellerswith higher...
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