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Empiricism meets theory : is the Boone-Indicator applicable?

Schiersch, Alexander; Schmidt-Ehmcke, Jens - 2010

-ity of the Boone-Indicator using cartel cases. Our analysis reveals that the traditional regres-sion approach of the …

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International Cartels and Bilateral Trade : An Empirical Investigation

Agnosteva, Delina - 2016

model of trade and the Poisson Pseudo Maximum Likelihood (PPML) estimator. Using a rich cartel data set that contains … OECD countries for the period from 1988 until 2012, I estimate the effect of each cartel on trade individually and find … being positive. In a preliminary second-stage analysis, I also examine the potential determinants of these deferring cartel …

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Collusive upward gasoline price movements in medium-sized German cities

Neukirch, Arne; Wein, Thomas - 2016

-ups. Multivariate estimation indicates that the single cause "price change by competitors" is less important and nearly irrelevant for …

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Market conduct in the U.S. ready-to-eat cereal industry

Reimer, Jeffrey J. (contributor) - In: Journal of agricultural & food industrial organization 2 (2004) 1

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Estimating cartel damages with model averaging approaches

Tsay, Wen-jen - In: International review of law and economics 68 (2021), pp. 1-7

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Market Conduct in the U.S. Ready-to-Eat Cereal Industry

Connor, John M.; Reimer, Jeffrey J. - 2013

Product differentiation is well established as being the key source of the cereal industry's high price-cost margins. However, there is little consensus as to whether pricing collusion is also a source of profitability, and indeed, whether price even serves as a strategic variable in this...

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Can Euribor be fixed?

Herrera, Rubén; Climent Diranzo, Francisco J.; … - In: Economic research 34 (2021) 1,3, pp. 2833-2852

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Product Market Threats and the Value of Corporate Cash Holdings

Chi, J. Daniel - 2020

We construct a model to show that predatory strategies by a financially strong rival can cause a financially weak firm to underinvest. This threat intensifies when the two firms produce similar products and share similar future investment opportunities. We show that cash holdings become more...

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Thin capitalization rules and multinational firm capital structure

Blouin, Jennifer L.; Huizinga, Harry; Laeven, Luc; … - 2014

This paper examines the impact of thin capitalization rules that limit the tax deductibility of interest on the capital structure of the foreign affiliates of US multinationals. We construct a new data set on thin capitalization rules in 54 countries for the period 1982-2004. Using confidential...

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Trade-off-theory vs. pecking order theory and the determinants of corporate leverage : evidence from a panel data analysis upon French SMEs (2002 - 2010)

Adair, Philippe; Adaskou, Mohamed - In: Cogent economics & finance 3 (2015) 1, pp. 1-11

We test the assumptions of trade-off theory (TOT) and pecking order theory (POT) regarding corporate leverage. The dependent variable being the debt ratio, we apply a linear model upon a balanced panel data-set of 2,370 French SMEs over the period 2002 - 2010. In accordance to TOT, trade credit...

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