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Does a Soft Macroeconomic Environment Induce Restructuring on the Microeconomic Level during the Transition Period? Evidence from Investment Behavior of Czech Enterprises

Lizal, Lubomir - 1999

The paper analyzes investment behavior of industrial enterprises in the period immediately following price and foreign … microeconomic decisions. A dynamic investment function with symmetric adjustment cost function based on the Euler equation has been … estimated. The derived and estimated investment function accounts for export sales in order to determine whether firms evaluate …

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Essays in Telecommunications Economics

Heimeshoff, Gerrit Ulrich - 2008

the determinants of telecommunications investments and presents two possible solutions to the investment problem. The …

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14.661 Labor Economics I, Fall 2006

Pischke, Jorn-Steffen; Angrist, Joshua - 2006

Neoclassical analysis of the labor market and its institutions. A systematic development of the theory of labor supply …

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Marginal Intra-Industry Trade and Adjustment Costs in the Hungarian Food Industry

Ferto, Imre - 2006

Recent developments in intra-industry trade (IIT) literature focus on the relationships between IIT and adjustment costs associated with changes in trade pattern. The effects of trade liberalisation depend, inter alia, on whether trade is of an inter-industry or intra-industry nature. The belief...

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Effective Labor Regulation and Microeconomic Flexibility

Caballero, Ricardo J.; Cowan, Devin N.; Engel, Eduardo … - 2004

Microeconomic flexibility, by facilitating the process of creative-destruction, is at the core of economic growth in modern market economies. The main reason for why this process is not infinitely fast is the presence of adjustment costs, some of them technological, others institutional. Chief...

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Dynamic adjustments in the Dutch greenhouse sector due to environmental regulations

Verreth, Daphne M.I.; Emvalomatis, Grigorios; Bunte, … - 2011

investment in energy-saving technologies. The paper aimed to assesDutch greenhouse farmers‘ responses to policies that would …

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Trade Liberalisation with Costly Adjustment

Forteza, Alvaro; Patron, Rossana - 2003

The paper analyses the efficiency and the distributional effects of eliminating a tariff in a protected sector, in a Heckscher-Ohlin model of trade with costs of adjustment. The tariff can be eliminated at the onset or after a while. In case of postponing it the government may pre-announce the...

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Agricultural Arbitrage, Adjustment Costs, and the Intensive Margin

Tack, Jesse B.; LaFrance, Jeffrey T. - 2010

Farmland and capital are an important and rapidly expanding component of the agriculturaleconomy, and empirical evidence suggests that these assets are quasi-fixed in that adjustment costs are incurred when holdings are altered. Increased interest in the rate of return for investing in farmland...

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Do Labor Market Rigidities have Microeconomic Effects? Evidence from Within the Firm

Lafontaine, Francine - 2007

We investigate the microeconomic effects of labor regulations that protect employment and are expected to increase rigidity in labor markets. We exploit a unique outlet-level dataset obtained from a multinational food chain operating 2,525 similar retail outlets in 43 countries outside the...

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Job Security Does Affect Economic Efficiency: Theory, A New Statistic, and Evidence from Chile

Petrin, Amil; Sivadasan, Jagadeesh - 2006

dynamic theory of plant-level labor demand that we develop. This model speaks clearly on one issue: firing costs drive a wedge …

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