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Cost and Benefits from Infrastructure Competition : Estimating Welfare Effects from Broadband Access Competition

Höffler, Felix - 2005

Competition between parallel infrastructures incorporates opposing welfare effects. The gain from reduced deadweight … access for Western Europe 2000-2004, this paper investigates which effect prevails empirically. Infrastructure competition … surplus attributable to cable competition with the cable investments, we conclude that infrastructure competition has not been …

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Internal and External R&D: A Sample Selection Approach

Vivarelli, Marco; Piga, Claudio - 2003

This study explicitly takes into account that the decision to enter into an external R&D relationship is related to an antecedent decision to carry out R&D. This calls for a methodological approach that, at the same time, permits the joint analysis of the determinants of the two decisions and...

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Determinants of Scientist Entrepreneurship: an Integrative Research Agenda

Audretsch, David B.; Erdem, Doga Kayalar - 2004

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The Origin of Technical Change: Knowlege Generation, Oppertunities and Entrepreneurship

Sanders, Mark - 2005

-economic growth theory in particular. I leave all downstream complications of where the required entrepreneurial vision, venture …

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Two Theories of Entrepreneurship: Alternative Assumptions and the Study of Entrepreneurial Action

Alvarez, Sharon A. - 2005

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A small Fish War: an example with frequency-dependent stage payoffs

Joosten, Reinoud - 2005

Two agents possess the fishing rights to a lake. Each period they have two options, to catch without restraint, e.g., to use a fine-mazed net, or to catch with some restraint, e.g., to use a wide-mazed net. The use of a fine-mazed net always yields a higher immediate catch than the alternative....

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Hidden Information Problems in the Design of Family Allowances

Cigno, Alessandro; Luporini, Annalisa; Pettini, Anna - 2003

We consider a case where some of the parents have higher ability to raise children than others. First-best policy gives both types of parents the same level of utility. If parental actions are not fully observable, however, the policy maker has to take into account the incentive-compatibility...

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Foreign Direct Investment, Labour Market Regulation and Self-Interested Governments

Palokangas, Tapio - 2003

This document examines foreign direct investment (FDI) when multinationals and labour unions bargain over labour contracts and lobby the self-interested government for taxation and labour market regulation. We demonstrate that right-to-manage bargaining predicts higher returns for FDI than does...

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Gender, Time Use and Models of the Household

Apps, Patricia - 2003

The aim of this paper is to explain why time use data are essential for analyzing issues of gender equity and the intra-household allocation of resources, for comparing living standards and for estimating the behavioral effects of changes in policy variables. The first step in the exposition is...

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Sind Nominallöhne starr? Neuere Evidenz und wirtschaftspolitische Implikationen

Beissinger, Thomas; Knoppik, Christoph - 2003

Bei Vorliegen nach unten starrer Nominallöhne erschwert niedrige Inflation Reallohnanpassungen und führt so möglicherweise zu erhöhter gleichgewichtiger Arbeitslosigkeit. Dieser Aufsatz analysiert die wachsende Evidenz zu nach unten starren Nominallöhnen. Es werden nicht nur die...

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