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Will Plain Packaging Reduce Cigarette Consumption?
Clarke, Harry; Prentice, David - Department of Economics and Finance, La Trobe Business … - 2012
evidence. Without offsetting tax increases the legislation will plausibly reduce prices but significant entry into the industry …
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Regulation of an Open Access Essential Facility
Gautier, Axel; Mitra, Manipushpak - University of Bonn, Germany - 2003
competitor. We show that this mechanism is welfare improving but it generates inefficient entry. That is a more efficient …
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Reforms, Entry and Productivity: Some Evidence from the Indian Manufacturing Sector
Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Gangopadhyay, Shubhashis; … - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2006
be expected to have a positive impact on productivity, thereby making entry (or contestability of markets) desirable …. Traditional research in the context of entry has explored the strategic reactions of incumbent firms when threatened by the … possibility of entry. However, following De Soto (1989), there has been increasing emphasis on regulatory and institutional …
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Policy, Economic Federalism & Product Market Entry: The Indian Experience
Bhaumik, Sumon; Gangopadhyay, Shubhasish; Krishnan, Shagun - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2006
Productivity growth has long been associated with, among others, contestability of markets which, in turn, is dependent on the ease with which potential competitors to the incumbent firms can enter the product market. There is a growing consensus that in emerging markets regulatory and...
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Product differentiation and efficiencies in the retail banking industry
Dai, Mian; Yuan, Yuan - In: Journal of Banking & Finance 37 (2013) 12, pp. 4907-4919
We empirically quantify the welfare implications of bank entry in the United States between 2000 and 2008. We use a … market outcomes. We find no evidence for under- or over-entry. Compared with the socially efficient outcome, there is a mild … significantly improves welfare under free entry. …
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Reforms, Entry and Productivity: Some Evidence from the Indian Manufacturing Sector
Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Gangopadhyay, Shubhashis; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
be expected to have a positive impact on productivity, thereby making entry (or contestability of markets) desirable …. Traditional research in the context of entry has explored the strategic reactions of incumbent firms when threatened by the … possibility of entry. However, following De Soto (1989), there has been increasing emphasis on regulatory and institutional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566382
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Health and the Political Agency of Women
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clots-Figueras, Irma - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We investigate whether politician gender influences policy outcomes in India. We focus upon antenatal and postnatal public health provision since the costs of poor services in this domain are disproportionately borne by women. Accounting for potential endogeneity of politician gender and the...
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Health and the Political Agency of Women
Bhalotra, Sonia; Clots-Figueras, Irma - Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), … - 2011
We investigate whether politician gender influences policy outcomes in India. We focus upon antenatal and postnatal public health provision since the costs of poor services in this domain are disproportionately borne by women. Accounting for potential endogeneity of politician gender and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009415737
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Partnerships for Women's Health - Striving for Best Practice within the UN Global Compact / United Nations University Research Brief 1/2009 (www.unu.edu)
Timmermann, Martina; Kruesmann, Monika - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Every minute, at least one woman dies from pregnancy and childbirth complications; a further 20 suffer injury, infection or disease. Despite medical advances, and years of policy declarations, this tragic situation remains particularly severe in developing countries, violating a fundamental...
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Is It Possible to Have Cheaper Drugs and Preserve the Incentive to Innovate: Reforming the Drug Approval Process According to Market Principles
Sauer, Corinne; Sauer, Robert - Jerusalem Institute for Market Studies (JIMS) - 2005
, obtained through price control legislation and legislation that eases the entry of generic products into the market, has caused …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004995401