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Imperfect competition in product markets and labor markets, general equilibrium and unemployment
Schniewind, Achim - 2000
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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Betting on Global Warming : The Impact of Insurance Instruments on Mitigation of Climate Change
Klimpel, Susanne - 2001
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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Mergers during the first and second phase of globalization: Success, insider trading, and the role of regulation
Kling, Gerhard - 2004
The merger wave that took place during the first phase of globalization, which lasted from 1895 to 1914, changed the … merger announcements; thereby, a higher market value is the recipe for success and not firm size. Encouraged by the results … values stemming from a merger announcement, another question would arise. Which type of shareholder gains from higher market …
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Bioentrepreneurship in Germany
Patzelt, Holger - 2005
. Problems that may occur during post-merger integration include the incompatibility of the partners? technologies and the … Unternehmen nicht den richtigen Partner findet oder keine Unterst?tzung von seinen Investoren erh?lt. W?hrend der Post-Merger …
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Will There Be a Concentration of Alikes? The Impact of Labor Market Structure on Industry Mix in the Presence of Product Market Shocks
Stahl, Konrad; Walz, Uwe - 2001
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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Noncompetitive Pricing and Exchange Rate Pass-Through in Mauritanian Octopus Export Markets
Kazmierczak, Richard F.; Zapata, Hector O.; Diop, Hamady - 1997
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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OBSERVATIONS ON COOPERATIVE BARGAINING IN U.S. AGRICULTURAL MARKETS
Hueth, Brent; Marcoul, Philippe - 2002
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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Grain Distribution in Ghana under Imperfectly Competitive Market Conditions
Langyintuo, Augustine S. - 2010
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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Imperfect Competition between Milk Manufacturers and Retailers in a Midwestern State in the U.S.
Hovhannisyan, Vardges; Stiegert, Kyle W. - 2011
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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Strategic Choice of Domestic Environmental Policy Instrument and International Emissions Trading Scheme in an Open Economy with Imperfect Competition
Boom, Jan Tjeerd - 2003
This paper presents a model of imperfect international competition. Within this framework, the optimal choice of national environmental policy instrument and international emissions trading scheme is discussed. The choice of national instrument is restricted to absolute and relative standards,...
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