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different structural changes between countries to separate the respective effects. Our results show that the effect of entry … lead to misleading conclusions. We find no robust evidence that entry has a price-decreasing effect on markets with … originally 2 operators. However, the entry of a 4th operator does have a price-decreasing effect, but with different dynamics …
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different structural changes between countries to separate the respective effects. Our results show that the effect of entry … lead to misleading conclusions. We find no robust evidence that entry has a price-decreasing effect on markets with … originally 2 operators. However, the entry of a 4th operator does have a price-decreasing effect, but with different dynamics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317118
This paper discusses a wide range of indicators of the degree of integration of the euro area banking system. It is concerned with volume data, a less developed field of research compared with studies on prices/rates. We first set out a methodological framework, a mixture of elementary and more...
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The average firm size of the top R&D investors among US-based companies is smaller than that of the EU-based firms. Does this help to explain why the US has a greater R&D intensity, or is the higher firm size in the EU, just as its lower R&D intensity, determined by the sectors in which the top...
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This paper analyzes a merger of large manufacturers with divestiture in the French coffee market. In contrast to previous approaches used to study the effects of upstream divestitures on prices and welfare, we model the vertical market structure. First, our results show that the standard policy...
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We study cross-country price differences in the European market for new passenger cars based on detailed pricing and technical data. Car prices in Europe converged until the year 2003, but not thereafter. Within the EU 15 countries the price range of the median model in 2004 was close to 20...
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encouraging the entry of electric-only manufacturers into the EU. …
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The aim of the research is to assess the degree of the pricing-to-market (PTM) strategy used in selected European countries, focusing on selected groups of consumer goods. The study uses a literature review in the field of macroeconomics and international finance, as well as statistical and...
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We study changes in job reallocation in Europe after 2000 using novel microaggregated data that we collected for 19 European countries. In all countries, we document broad-based declines in job reallocation rates that concern most economic sectors and size classes. These declines are mainly...
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