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Ronayne, David; Sgroi, Daniel; Tuckwell, Anthony - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 186 (2021), pp. 318-327

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Cross-industry heterogeneity in export participation : the role of scale economies in R&D

Ferguson, Shon - 2012

This paper shows that the R&D intensity of an industry plays an important role in determining international trade patterns via its effect on scale economies. I first develop a model of trade with heterogeneous firms where firms compete with each other by spending on fixed product development...

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Fintech and financial services : initial considerations

He, Dong; Leckow, Ross B.; Haksar, Vikram; Mancini … - 2017

A new wave of technological innovations, often called 'fintech,' is accelerating change in the financial sector. What impact might fintech have on financial services, and how should regulation respond? This paper sets out an economic framework for thinking through the channels by which fintech...

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Chapter 8 Mobility barriers and the value of incumbency

Gilbert, Richard J. - In: Handbook of industrial organization : volume 1, (pp. 475-535). 1989

This chapter discusses the difference between determinants of barriers to the mobility of capital and the welfare implications of entry and exit. The first task is confined for identifying situations in which a firm that is established in an industry benefits because of its incumbency. An...

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Optimal investment strategies under demand and tax policy uncertainty

Boehm, Hjalmar; Funke, Michael - 2000

In this paper we offer an analysis of the effects of uncertainty about future tax policy on irreversible investment …. The main message of the paper is that investment is not much affected by the degreee of tax policy uncertainty. This is … that reducing tax policy uncertainty is probably no magic bullet to increase private investment spending …

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Sunk costs and risk-based barriers to entry

Pindyck, Robert S. - 2009

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Sunk costs and risk-based barriers to entry

Pindyck, Robert S. - 2009 - This draft: Feb. 13, 2009

In merger analysis and other antitrust settings, risk is often cited as a potential barrier to entry. But there is little consensus as to the kinds of risk that matter- systematic versus non-systematic and industry-wide versus firm-specific - and the mechanisms through which they affect entry. I...

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Microeconomic uncertainty, international trade, and aggregate fluctuations

Alessandria, George; Choi, Horag; Kaboski, Joseph Paul; … - In: Journal of monetary economics 69 (2015), pp. 20-38

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Supplier partnership and cost performance : the moderating roles of specific investments and environmental uncertainty

Yeung, Kwong; Lee, Peter K. C.; Yeung, Andy C. L.; … - In: International journal of production economics 144 (2013) 2, pp. 546-559

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