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Regulation and competition in German banking : an assessment
Fischer, Karl-Hermann; Pfeil, Christian M. - 2003
In Germany a public discussion on the power of banks has been going on for decades now with the term power having at least two meanings. On the one hand, it denotes the power of banks to control public corporations through direct shareholdings or the exercise of proxy votes this is the power of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009765356
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Finance and Creative Destruction : Evidence for Italy
Lotti, Francesca - 2016
In this paper we provide new evidence on the relationship between market concentration in the banking industry and firm … carry out RDD estimates of (i) the effect of intervention by antitrust authorities on banking market concentration, and (ii …) the effect of the level of bank concentration on various measures of firm dynamics. The results show that, in those areas …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012997289
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Vulnerable to the virus : globally-oriented manufacturing firms at risk from the spread of COVID-19
Jandoc, Karl Robert L.; Mendoza, Adrian; Quimbo, Stella Luz - 2020
We use a unique Philippine firm-level database consisting of trade transactions data merged with firm surveys of manufacturing establishments covering the period from 2013 to 2019 to examine which exporting and importing firms are potentially vulnerable to the economic slowdown brought about by...
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The impact of trade liberalization on firms' product and labor market power
Dobbelaere, Sabien; Wiersma, Quint - 2020
This paper examines the impact of trade liberalization on firms' product and labor market power. We estimate the prevalence and intensity of firm-level price-cost markups and either wage markups or wage markdowns. We take the dependence between these model-consistent measures of product and...
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The Unequal Effects of Liberalization : Evidence from Dismantling the License Raj in India
Aghion, Philippe; Burgess, Robin; Redding, Stephen J.; … - 2007
We study whether the effects on registered manufacturing output of dismantling the License Raj - a system of central controls regulating entry and production activity in this sector - vary across Indian states with different labor market regulations. The effects are found to be unequal across...
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Cross-country differences in productivity : the role of allocation and selection
Bartelsman, Eric J.; Haltiwanger, John C.; Scarpetta, … - 2009
This paper combines different strands of the productivity literature to investigate the effect of idiosyncratic (firm-level) policy distortions on aggregate outcomes. On the one hand, a growing body of empirical research has been relating cross-country differences in key economic outcomes, such...
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Reserve price effects in auctions : estimates from multiple RD designs
Choi, Syngjoo; Nesheim, Lars; Rasul, Imran - 2010
We present evidence from 260,000 online auctions of second-hand cars to identify the impact of public reserve prices on auction outcomes. To establish causality, we exploit multiple discontinuities in the relationship between reserve prices and vehicle characteristics to present RD estimates of...
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Pharmaceutical prices under regulation : tiered co-payments and reference pricing in Germany
Herr, Annika; Suppliet, Moritz - 2012
Many countries with national health care providers and health insurances regulate the market for pharmaceuticals to steer drug demand and to control expenses. For example, they introduce reference pricing or tiered co-payments to enhance drug substitution and competition. Since 2006, Germany...
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Do auctions and forced divestitures increase competition?
Soetevent, Adriaan R.; Haan, Marco; Heijnen, Pim - 2011
Where markets are insufficiently competitive, governments can intervene by auctioninglicenses to operate or by forcing divestitures. The Dutch government has doneexactly that, organizing auctions to redistribute tenancy rights for highway gasolinestations and forcing the divestiture of outlets...
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EU land markets and the common agricultural policy
Ciaian, Pavel; Kancs, D'Artis; Swinnen, Johan F. M. - 2010
Economic theory, as well as empirical findings, suggest that the way in which agricultural support is provided has an influence on land markets, because payments capitalise to some degree into land values, affecting both the sale and rental price of land. The present paper analyses how the...
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