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Competition issues in network industries: the Latin American railways experience

Campos, Javier - In: Brazilian Electronic Journal of Economics 5 (2002) 1

This paper discusses several competition issues that have emerged in the Latin American rail industry after the recent … restructuring experiences started during the 1990s. The analysis focuses on Brazil and Mexico providing a brief account of the main … characteristics of the concessioning process in each of these two countries. The relevant competition issues are then analyzed from a …

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Hong Kong, Singapore and the East Asian Crisis: How Important were Trade Spillovers?

Rajan, Ramkishen; Sen, Rahul; Siregar, Reza Y. - Hong Kong Institute for Monetary Research (HKIMR), … - 2002

The literature on the East Asian crisis has concentrated almost exclusively on the five crisis-hit economies of Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines (Asia-5). Relatively scant attention has been paid to the "twin cities" of Hong Kong and Singapore, both of which also suffered...

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Do Entry Conditions Vary over Time? Entry and Competition in the Broadband Market: 1999-2003

Xiao, Mo; Orazem, Peter - Department of Economics, Iowa State University - 2006

We extend Bresnahan and Reiss’s (1991) model of local oligopoly to allow firm entry and exit over time. In our framework, entrants have to incur sunk costs in order to enter a market. After becoming incumbents, they disregard these entry costs in deciding whether to continue operating or to...

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The Property Rights Theory of the Firm and Mixed Competition: A Counter-Example in the US Health Care Industry

Friesner, Daniel; Rosenman, Robert - In: International Journal of the Economics of Business 8 (2001) 3, pp. 437-450

mixed competition in the health care industry to show that, even when these four conditions do not hold, not …

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The Persistence of Profits in the Long Run: A New Approach

Cable, John; Jackson, Richard - In: International Journal of the Economics of Business 15 (2008) 2, pp. 229-244

dynamic competition. A nine-category taxonomy of long-run persistence stereotypes is developed. Structural time series …

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Price Strategies and Compatibility in Digital Networks

Foros, Øystein - In: International Journal of the Economics of Business 14 (2007) 1, pp. 85-97

We analyze competition between two horizontally differentiated network providers. New technologies help the providers …

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Competition and stock market development

Ramos, Sofia - In: The European Journal of Finance 15 (2009) 2, pp. 231-247

to 2003. I find that the divergence is mainly explained by changes in law and regulation enhancing competition. In … addition, the general level of competition is positively related with stock market development. Competition causes a decrease …

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China's Financial Development

Goodhart, C. A. E. - In: Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies 1 (2003) 1, pp. 137-142

of developing professional skills, greater competition and the application, through regulation, of appropriate incentives …

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An Institutional Analysis of Research and Development Expenditure

Patalinghug, Epictetus - Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), … - 1999

It is the government’s role in the science and technology sector to foster cooperation between government, academe and industries; establish a competitive science research funding mechanism; promote the development of science and technology manpower; and establish a system to monitor, assess...

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Competition Policy for Natural Monopolies in a Developing Market Economy

Ordover, Janusz; Pittman, Russell; Clyde, Paul - EconWPA - 2001

Not all industries in post-socialist countries are appropriate targets for demonopolization and deregulation: as in the West, some "natural monopoly" sectors will require continued regulation to protect consumers from monopoly abuses. This paper focuses on three aspects of the design of...

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