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We introduce a model of asymmetric competition where two network operators with different investment costs may build an …
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We examine a game of competition with access provision in which service quality is endogenously determined through … infrastructure upgrades with spillovers. There are two types of equilibria in the free competition regime. In particular, voluntary …
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Cluster policy is recognized as one of the pivotal elements of state-of-art innovation policy. State support for clusters helps to take into account regional peculiarities and engage the most innovative local actors into the process of innovation policy drafting and implementation. Cluster...
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This article analyses recent efforts to create a different institutional framework in Pará State, Brazilian Amazon to promote sustainable development. The region is economically peripheral to capitalism. Historically, Amazon river delta has been used as source of raw materials since XVII...
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This study was prepared by Nadine Fabritz while she was working at the Ifo Institute for Economic Research in the Department for Human Capital and Innovation. It was completed in June 2014 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich in October...
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This paper endogenizes the spatial distribution of infrastructure investment and transportation costs. Transportation costs between two addresses depend on cumulative infrastructure investment. In a continuous space setting with several independent countries or regions, consumers demand domestic...
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approach by claiming that delegation does not solve the commitment problem but merely relocates it. McCallum’s critique is … credibility. Commitment is achieved by the costs incurred to pass and later change a law or the constitution. The higher these … insight explains the observed commitment effect of delegation and helps to improve the institutional design of environmental …
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