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Merger Control and Enterprise Competitiveness - Empirical Analysis and Policy Recommendations

Stennek, Johan; Verboven, Frank - 2001

This report studies the importance of efficiency gains from horizontal mergers. A general theme throughout this report is that efficiency gains, and their pass-on to consumers, may vary substantially from merger to merger. For this reason it seems appropriate to reconsider current practice in...

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Cumulative Effects of Labor Market Distortions in a Developing Country

Norbäck, Pehr-Johan - 1999

This paper considers a small open economy with an input-output industrial structure that creates vertical linkages and multiple equilibria. An imperfect labor market is introduced by assuming unionized labor. It is shown that a deregulation of the labor market may trigger a large discontinuous...

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Allocation of Economic Competence in Teams: A Comparative Institutional Analysis

Pelikan, Pavel - 1997

Attention is called to a little explored scarce resource, termed 'economic competence', which combines features of human capital and bounded rationality, and causes a singularity in resource-allocation in society. The performance of each economy is shown to strongly depend on how this resource...

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MOSES (Model of the Swedish Economic System): A Presentation of the Swedish Micro-to-Macro Econometric Model

Eliasson, Gunnar - 1988

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Maskiners ekonomiska deprecieringstakt: En studie med hjälp av Box-Cox-transformation

Hartler, Christina - 1988

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A Unified Treatment of Horizontal Direct Investment, Vertical Direct Investment, and the Pattern of Trade in Goods and Services

Markusen, James R.; Venables, Anthony J.; Eby Konan, Denise - 1996

This paper contributes to research endogenizing multinational firms in general-equilibrium trade models. We attempt to integrate separate contributions on horizontal multinationals which produce the same final product in multiple locations, with work on vertical multinationals, which...

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Internal Efficiency and External Conditions

Weibull, Jörgen W. - 1997

This paper develops a new analytical approach to the old question whether market conditions may influence the internal efficiency of firms. The basic textbook model of the firm is slightly extended to incorporate managers' incentives to reduce production costs in an imperfectly competitive...

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Redistribution, Occupational Choice and Intergenerational Mobility: Does Wage Equality Nail the Cobbler to His Last?

Sjögren, Anna - 2000

The classical Roy-model of selection on the labor market is extended in order to analyze intergenerational mobility. This is done by linking ability uncertainty to family background. I derive implications for the allocation of talent and for background dependent earnings patterns within...

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What have we learned from Evolutionary Game Theory so far?

Weibull, Jörgen W. - 1997

framework of non-cooperative game theory. Evolutionary game theory studies the robustness of strategic behaviour with respect to … economic theory has lead to new predictions and opened up doors to other social sciences. The discussion will be focused on the … in evolutionary game theory so far? What are the next challenges for evolutionary game theory in economics? …

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National Standards and International Trade

Ganslandt, Mattias; Markusen, James R. - 2001

Standards and technical regulations which govern the admissibility of imported goods into an economy raise costs of exporters entering new markets, and may have a particularly high impact on firms seeking to export from developing countries. Yet standards may also have a positive side, such as...

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