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attitudes to corruption, and how these may shape the competition for the right to extract resources in a developing country …-off between bribes and taxes determine who wins the competition for the resource and the winning price. We find that the entry of …
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The "revolving door" phenomenon has become very common in most industrialised countries, and is leading to conflicts of interest as well as economic distortions. The purpose of this paper is to develop an indicator of the distortionary effects of the revolving door - The Revolving Door Indicator...
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. Inspired by the theory of the core, we explore the idea that the competitive process is the process of sellers and buyers …
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The principal aim of this paper is to select a contractor who offers the best value for money. This will nearly always involve a process of competitive tendering. The final decision as to which contractor offers the best value for money will be determined by the factors like quality/price...
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Considerable evidence demonstrates that significant dispersion exists in the prices charged for seemingly homogeneous goods. This paper adopts a simple, flexible equilibrium model of search to investigate the way the market structure influences price dispersion. Using the noisy search approach,...
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Ein Jahr nach Inkrafttreten der deutschen Energierechtsnovelle sind die Konturen der zukünftigen Strommarktregulierung noch zu weiten Teilen ungeklärt. Vor diesem aktuellen wirtschaftspolitischem Hintergrund wird in diesem Papier die Frage nach einer sachgerechten Ausrichtung der...
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The main objective of the competition policy and law is to preserve and promote competition, as a means to ensure … adequate supplies to consumers. As a general proposition, competition law consists of rules that are aimed at protecting the … process of competition in order to maximize consumer welfare. The aim of the Competition policy is to enhance the economic …
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We study the effect of patent royalty damages on social welfare in an entry model of quantity competition. We show that … welfare. Intuitively, per-unit royalties help overcome the over-entry problem only by distorting downstream competition, while …
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While the real effects of bank competition is a classic topic in the finance literature, there has been relatively … exogenous shock to competition supplied by DOJ antitrust policies to look at the relationship between bank competition and local … labor markets. Following this negative shock to competition, unemployment increases and wages decrease, but there is no …
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