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Distributive and Regional Effects of Monopoly Power

Urzúa, Carlos M. - Escuela de Graduados en Administración Pública y … - 2009

This paper estimates the distributive and regional effects of firms with market power in the case of Mexico. It presents evidence that the welfare losses due to the exercise of monopoly power are not only significant, but also regressive. Moreover, the losses are different for the urban and...

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CHAIN-STORE PRICING FOR STRATEGIC ACCOMMODATION

Dobson, Paul W; Waterson, Michael - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 2003

Chain-stores now dominate most areas of retailing. While retailers may operate nationally or even internationally, the markets they compete in are largely local. How should they best operate pricing policy in respect of the different markets served - price uniformly across the local markets or...

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An Estimation of Consumer Benefits From the Public Campaign To Lower Cereal Prices

Cotterill, Ronald W.; Franklin, Andrew W. - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, … - 1998

Using monthly IRI scanner data for January 1993 to March 1998, cereal prices declined even after adjusting for trade promotions and reduced manufacturer coupons during the public campaign in 1995 and early 1996, as well as after the industry's announced shelf price reductions in Spring 1996. The...

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The relationship between technical efficiency and industrial concentration: Evidence from the Indonesian food and beverages industry

Setiawan, Maman; Emvalomatis, Grigorios; Oude Lansink, … - In: Journal of Asian Economics 23 (2012) 4, pp. 466-475

This paper investigates the relationship between technical efficiency and industrial concentration in the Indonesian food and beverages sector. Firm-level data obtained from the Indonesian Bureau of Central Statistics (BPS) are used to estimate technical efficiency scores and calculate measures...

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Jawboning Cereal: The Campaign to Lower Cereal Prices

Cotterill, Ronald W. - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, … - 1998

reductions in cereal prices. It also introduces the main issues on the vigor of competition and pricing that are analyzed in … the breakfast cereal industry in the mid 1990’s. The jawboning campaign was effective in advancing price competition in an … industry that successfully resisted repeated antitrust efforts to promote competition. The RTE cereal industry is now …

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Concepts et méthodes de l'analyse de filières agroalimentaires : application par la chaîne globale de valeur au cas des blés en Algérie

Bencharif, A.; Rastoin, J.L. - Unité Mixte de Recherche Marchés, Organisations, … - 2007

After a survey of the main agribusiness global value chain analysis methods, the authors propose a larger pattern from the global value chain concept developed by Gereffi. They focus on the necessity of a quantified economic characterization and a diachronic study of the global value chain. This...

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Do High-Income or Low-Income Immigrants Leave Faster?

Bijwaard, Govert; Wahba, Jackline - 2013

We estimate the impact of the income earned in the host country on return migration of labor migrants from developing countries. We use a three-state correlated competing risks model to account for the strong dependence of labor market status and the income earned. Our analysis is based on...

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The speed of leaving the old job: a study on job changes and exit into unemployment during the East German transition process

Wolff, Joachim; Trübswetter, Parvati; Liebscher, Volkmar - 2003

The first period of the transition to a market economy was characterised by a high rate of job-change in many transition countries. This was no different for East Germany. This paper analyses the consequences of the transition process for East German workers in their old job. We quantify the...

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Dependence Measures in Bivariate Gamma Frailty Models

van den Berg, Gerard J.; Effraimidis, Georgios - 2014

Bivariate duration data frequently arise in economics, biostatistics and other areas. In bivariate frailty models, dependence between the frailties (i.e., unobserved determinants) induces dependence between the durations. Using notions of quadrant dependence, we study restrictions that this...

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Empirical Analysis of Career Transitions of Sciences and Engineering Doctorates in the US

Mishagina, Natalia - 2007

This paper studies career mobility of white male doctorates in natural sciences and engineering using the Survey of Doctorate Recipients (1973-2001). The paper focuses on two issues. First, it assesses the relevance of doctoral careers to sciences and engineering (S&E) in general, and research...

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