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general enough to account for incumbents’ reaction to Wal-Mart’s entry resulting in exit, entry and changes in the production …
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Most of the studies based on the New Empirical Industrial Organization (NEIO) approach use the industry data to estimate the degree of market power at the national level. Yet, only a few empirical studies presented the results that measure the degree of market power at the regional level and...
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This study analyzes Wal-Mart’s pricing practices and its influence on competitors’ input cost transmission. Previous attempts to analyze Wal-Mart’s pricing strategy in the United States have been limited by the company’s refusal to provide scanner data to third party research firms...
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entry and exit behavior. We develop theoretical predictions based on the model of Lakdawalla and Philipson, in which for … using data for all U.S. hospitals from 1984 through 2000. Examining annual and regional entry and exit rates, for …-profit hospitals consistently have higher entry and exit rates than not-for-profits. Econometric modeling of entry and exit rates …
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material inputs. To determine the likely profitability of a new plant, a processor must forecast the effect entry will have on … local post-entry raw material price. This requires anticipating how entry will affect market structure and intensify … processor competition in local procurement areas, an empirical model is developed to ex ante forecast the likely impact of entry …
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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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This study uses a unique firm-level dataset to examine how falling trade costs from 1993-2001 affected entry, exit …-firm models of international trade. For example, falling trade costs reduced entry by new Korean firms, increased their …
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indicator of extra rents and thus provide incentives for market entry. On theone hand, this thread may lead to special pricing …. But it is possible, on the other hand, that market entry mayin fact happen. In this case, one would observe structural … oriented towards an optimal market structure buttowards the facilitation of market entry so that competition can discover …
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globalization on employment and wages in Nigeria. The effects of globalization have been difficult to isolate and evaluate … employees’ wages by looking at what happened before, during and after globalization in Nigeria. Information and data were …. Most of the jobs created in informal sectors are insecure despite there higher pay compared to wages in the formal sector …
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