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What is the Impact of Increased Business Competition?
Feliz, Sonia - 2020
This paper studies the macroeconomic effect and underlying firm-level transmission channels of a reduction in business entry costs. We provide novel evidence on the response of firms' entry, exit, and employment decisions. To do so, we use as a natural experiment a reform in Portugal that...
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Bank Competition and Financial (In)Stability in Europe : A Sensitivity Analysis
Samantas, Ioannis - 2013
stability channel of bank competition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013072563
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The Effects of Local Market Concentration and International Competition on Firm Productivity : Evidence from Mexico
Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos - 2020
Although market concentration is one of the main impediments to productivity growth globally, data constraints have limited its analysis to developed countries or cross-country studies based on definitions of market concentration across nations and industries. This paper takes advantage of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012836579
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The effects of local market concentration and international competition on firm productivity : evidence from Mexico
Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos; López-Calva, Luis F.; … - 2020
Although market concentration is one of the main impediments to productivity growth globally, data constraints have limited its analysis to developed countries or cross-country studies based on definitions of market concentration across nations and industries. This paper takes advantage of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012202018
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Competition and Firm Performance : Lessons from Russia
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2000
impact of several dimensions of market competition and other factors on enterprise efficiency. We analyze 1992-1998 panel …, intensity, time path, and survival effects of competitive pressures. We find large, positive effects on TFP from competition in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014160741
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Chapter 9. Newspapers and Magazines
Chandra, Ambarish; Kaiser, Ulrich - 2015
We review the Economics literature on newspapers and magazines. Our emphasis is on the newspaper industry, especially in the United States, given that this has been the focus of existing research. We first discuss the structure of print media markets, describing the rise in the number of daily...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025244
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The competition effect in business cycles
Lewis, Vivien; Stevens, Arnoud - 2012
the "competition effect", by which desired price markups and inflation decrease when entry rises. We find that a 1 percent …
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Enhancing business dynamism and consumer welfare in Costa Rica with regulatory reform
González Pandiella, Alberto - 2020
on competition, and therefore on business dynamism, productivity and ultimately well-being. A recent update of the OECD …. Regulatory reform can improve consumer welfare by boosting competition and thus lowering prices of key goods and services, which … competition will also allow higher wages. Reducing barriers to entry can facilitate firm creation, boosting investment and jobs. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012304414
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Competition or conflict? : beyond traditional ordo-liberalism
Dold, Malte; Krieger, Tim - 2017
institutional framework, competition within markets is mainly characterized by peaceful and conflict-free rivalry between actors … that leads to an optimal allocation of resources. In such a setting, competition may be described as a "record-type" game …. This view, however, ignores the possibility that competition itself may very well trigger conflict rather than having an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607117
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Antitrust failures : the internet giants
Taschdjian, Martin; Alleman, James - 2018
Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google, as well as Twitter – the FANG companies – have transformed society with both positive and negative effects. Soaring consumer access to information, news, social networks, and entertainment has been stimulated by the ever-more ubiquitous and falling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011990829