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In this thesis it is analyzed if promoting product market competition can help to to fight unemployment in Europe. We have used a general equilibrium model in order to study how reducing mark-ups and increasing productivity in one sector affect aggregate unemployment for an exogenously given...
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Since the 1980's the phenomenon of potential climate change or 'global warming' has been one of the predominant topics in environmental economics. Uncertainty is one of the main characteristics of climate change since many important scientific relationships are not yet well enough understood....
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mortgage or bad credit mortgage, the broad impact of this subprime crisis promotes more concern in the loan lenders, the … borrowers and mortgage-related products like mortgage backed securities. Since credit market is one of the successful … application areas of statistics, we think a better understanding of MBS and its related risk and a more accurate credit risk …
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This research titled "Analysis of Influence of Credit and Interest Rate Increase Economic Growth in Disability Sumatera … determine the influence of credit and interest rate of economic growth in 1989-2008 of North Sumatra. This research uses … that the higher credit demand, then economic growth will increase. Meanwhile, the higher the interest rate, then economic …
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We analyze determinants of regional industry mix and focus especially on the influence of labor market characteristics. By combining a labor market pooling argument with an argument involving the cost of switching a worker from one firm to another, we show that in the presence of product market...
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Octopus exports are an important source of foreign exchange for Mauritania. The export market has historically been dominated by coordinated Japanese buyers, a situation that led Mauritania to create the Societe Mauritanienne de Commercialisation de Poisson (SMCP) to negotiate with buyers and...
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This paper identifies market and commodity characteristics that seem to support successful cooperative bargaining in markets for farm output. Bargaining is not just about increasing prices paid to farmers; indeed, although there is very little empirical research that addresses the issue, what...
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Interspatial and intertemporal grain distribution in Ghana is a private sectoractivity carried out mainly by traders. These traders sometimes collude to maximize theirjoint profits. By so doing they influence the conduct of the grains market. To examine theeffect of their actions on the informal...
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This manuscript studies the market conduct of the milk manufacturers and retail chains in a Midwestern state in the U.S. Following the menu approach we employ a random coefficient logit demand model to investigate several possible scenarios on the supply side. Demand estimates are obtained using...
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instrument is restricted to absolute and relative standards, which form the basis for permit and credit trading respectively. It … is shown that relatives standards and credit trading lead to higher output than emission ceilings and permit trading. I …
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