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Decomposition of country’s export gives us to opportunity to understand the sources of exports growth. This paper decomposes Kazakhstan export into four margins extensive, intensive, price and quantity. We analyzed Kazakhstan’s export performance using data at the 6-digit level over period...
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It has been emphasized that international promotion activities such as state visits or the presence of embassies, consulates and export promotion agencies help foster trade when there are search costs and/or uncertainty. In this paper we try to disentangle the differential effect that foreign...
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This dissertation consists of three essays in International Trade. The first essay studies the impact of changing tariffs on the range of goods countries export to the United States. The empirical analysis shows that tariffs tend to have a statistically significant but small impact: at best 5...
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We test the effect of entry on the tariff choices of incumbent cellularfirms. We relate the change in the breadth of … personal communicationsservices (PCS) firms. Entry by PCS competitors differed acrossgeographic markets due to the number of … from the oldanalog technology to the new digital technology in markets with moreentry, suggesting that entry also has …
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, rarely have economistsbeen able to examine how competition changes with the threat of entry.This paper uses the evolution of … adjusts its entry strategy when facing the threat ofadditional entrants. We identify the potential nth entrant into a … such a market ismore likely to accommodate more than n firms in the long run. Takingaccount of endogeneity of entry into …
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congestion effect. However, when the number of sellers ispresented in isolation, its negative impact on entry is …
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Competition among multi-store chains is common in retail industries.This paper proposes a method for eliminating a model of strategicstore-network choices by two chains. In contrast to previous studies, Iallow chains to not only choose which markets to enter but also how manystores to open in...
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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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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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