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This article analyzes the characteristic features of the market for housing construction in Russia. It reviews the main factors influencing this market and studies the motivations of its main participants (including those that participate in local markets). It also assesses the efficiency of...
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-dumping (AD) duty, delving into the economic literature on the political economy of protection, market competition and trade … action/competition, economic performance, factors of production, trade coefficients), reflecting their structural … characteristics, market competition, economic performance and political mobilization. The econometric specifications apply binary …
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We study how the level of trade costs and the intensity of competition interact to explain the nature and intensity of …
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We analyze if female athletes differ from male athletes in their competitive behavior, using data from high jump and pole vault competitions. We estimate if female athletes use risky strategies as often as male athletes and whether or not their returns to risky strategies differ. Returns to...
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We study the relationship between competition and price discrimination through an empirical examination of hourly price … schedules in the parking garage industry. We find that the degree of price schedule curvature decreases with competition …, implying a greater proportionate drop in low-end prices than in high-end prices when competition intensifies. We provide an …
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The intensity of competition in Central, Eastern and Southeast Europe stylized facts and repercussions for sectoral … price developments (by M. Feldkircher, R. Martin and J. Wörz; pp. 1-7) Keywords inflation, mark-ups, competition …
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How do financial constraints influence innovative activities of firms? In a two-period model of price competition with … and might even become a monopolist in the second period of competition. If we finally assume that both firms are …
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We analyze the role of quality, which we define as an attribute of a product that increases consumers’ willingness to buy, as a competitive tool in a quality-price setting. We consider an incumbent’s entry-deterrence strategies using quality as a deterrent when faced by a potential entrant....
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. The reason, Frank argues, is that Darwin's understanding of competition describes economic reality far more accurately …'s world rather than Smith's is putting us all at risk by preventing us from seeing that competition alone will not solve our … problems. Smith's theory of the invisible hand, which says that competition channels self-interest for the common good, is …
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This paper examines the effect of emission taxes on pollution abatement and social welfare, when abatement goods and services are provided by a Cournot oligopoly with free-entry. We point out initially that a higher tax not only increases demand for abatement; it also makes polluters less...
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