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Chandlerian firms vs. entrepreneurship
Gambardella, Alfonso; Giarratana, Marco S. - 2004
Chandlerian world entails a lower spread of managerial salaries, greater product diversification, and a greater degree of products …
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Diversifikationsmaße im Praxistest: Ergebnisse auf der Grundlage von amtlichen Mikrodaten für Deutschland
Zloczysti, Petra; Faber, Cathleen - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 76 (2007) 3, pp. 29-42
Die Wahl zwischen Diversifikation und Spezialisierung ist eine lange und kontrovers diskutierte Frage in der … messen, wie sie bei real existierender, also beobachtbarer Diversifikation reagieren und ob sie in Querschnitt- und … Diversifikation sowie ihrer Entwicklung im Zeitverlauf für das verarbeitende Gewerbe in Deutschland gegeben. …
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Heterogeneous skills and homogeneous land: Segmentation and agglomeration
Wrede, Matthias - 2012
This paper analyzes the effect of skill heterogeneity on regional patterns of production and housing in the presence of pecuniary externalities within a general-equilibrium framework, assuming monopolistic competition in intermediate goods markets. It shows that the interplay of heterogeneous...
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When inefficiency begets efficiency
Gersbach, Hans; Haller, Hans - 2003
Collective consumption decisions taken by the members of a household may prove inefficient. The impact of such inefficient household decisions on market performance is investigated. At one extreme, market efficiency can occur even when household decisions are inefficient, namely when household...
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Policy Risk and the Business Cycle
Born, Benjamin; Peifer, Johannes - 2011
The argument that policy risk, i.e. uncertainty about monetary and fiscal policy, has been holding back the economic recovery in the U.S. during the Great Recession has a large popular appeal. We analyze the role of policy risk in explaining business cycle fluctuations by using an estimated New...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293363
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The road less travelled: Oligopoly and competition policy in general equilibrium
Neary, J. Peter - 2002
I review previous approaches to modelling oligopoly in general equilibrium, and propose a new view which in principle overcomes their deficiencies: modelling firms as large in their own market but small in the economy as a whole. Implementing this approach requires a tractable specification of...
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A theory of migration as a response to occupational stigma
Stark, Oded; Fan, C.Simon - 2010
A theory is developed of labor migration that is prompted by a desire to avoid social humiliation. In a general …
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Testing the Modigliani-Miller theorem directly in the lab: a general equilibrium approach
Qiu, Jianying; Mahagaonkar, Prashanth - 2009
In this paper, we directly test the Modigliani-Miller theorem in the lab. Applying a general equilibrium approach and not allowing for arbitrage among firms with different capital structures, we are able to address this issue without making any assumptions about individuals' risk attitudes and...
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International Trade, Flexible Manufacturing and Outsourcing
Eckel, Carsten - 2005
This study analyzes the impact of international trade on the diffusion of flexible manufacturing in a general equilibrium framework. Suppliers produce a flexible base product that can be adapted to the specific input requirements of a continuum of downstream industries. The vertical structure is...
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Bridging Economic Theory Models and the Cointegrated Vector Autoregressive Model
Møller, Niels Framroze - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 2 (2008) 2008-36, pp. 1-29
Examples of simple economic theory models are analyzed as restrictions on the Cointegrated VAR (CVAR). This establishes …
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