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Based on diverse research methods, we trace and map industrial economics research in Denmark, Norway and Sweden in the periode of 1880 to 1908. After describing this research in terms of key contributors, we argue that industrial economics developed rather unevenly in the Scandinavian countries....
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We compile a new database of grocery prices in Argentina, with over 9 million observations per day. We find uniform pricing both within and across regions - i.e., product prices almost do not vary within stores of a chain. Uniform pricing implies that prices would not change with regional...
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This paper analyses the relation between competition and concentration in the banking sector. The empirical answer is … given by testing a monopolistic competition model of bank branching behaviour on individual bank data at county level … among incumbent banks on competition and discuss when, depending on the pre-merger structure of the market and geographic …
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This paper studies the links between competition in the lending market and spreads of bank loans in Brazil. Evidence …
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We develop a product-differentiated model where the product space is a network defined as a set of varieties (nodes) linked by their degrees of substitutability (edges). We also locate consumers into this network, so that the location of each consumer (node) corresponds to her "ideal" variety....
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The Great Recession, which was preceded by the financial crisis, resulted in higher unemployment and inequality. We propose a simple model where firms producing varieties face labor-market frictions and credit constraints. In the model, tighter credit leads to lower output, lower number of...
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Hundreds of millions of microenterprises in emerging economies face increased competition from the entry and expansion …, neighborhood shops, confront competition from convenience chains (e.g., 7- Eleven) in Mexico. To address the endogeneity in time …
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continuum of industries supplying tradable and nontradable goods under monopolistic competition. Trade liberalization is modeled …. -- international trade ; monopolistic competition ; trade openness ; public expenditure …
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