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competition. New technologies have great potential payoffs, but they require more sophisticated forms of social organization ….There is a need for institutions that facilitate patterns of trade consistent with balanced markets, and with the smooth …
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This work is a PhD dissertation, written at the Department of Economics, McGill University. The thesis offers a new framework for inflation as a process of restructuring. Contrary to existing theories of inflation, which tend to take structure and institutions as given for the purpose of...
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Regulation is presumed to be designed to avoid (potential) market failures,usually because of firms' market power, the consequence of which leads to a decrease in economic welfare. However, the cost of regulation may outweigh any effects policy makers have on the firm due to administrative...
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A sizable literature has grown up in recent years focusing on two-sided markets in which economies of scale combined …). In this paper we introduce a model of `porting' in such markets where porting denotes the conversion of `software' or …
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market. Moreover, the higher the degree of competition in the market for news, the more likely that media outlets will hire …
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This paper aimed at a statistical analysis of competition for tourists between regions within Baltic states (Estonia …
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This paper is devoted to statistical analysis of spatial competition and cooperation between European airports. We …. Competition and cooperation effects don't diminish steadily with moving from a given airport, their structure is more complex. The … modification to the standard spatial stochastic frontier model and use it to estimation of competition and cooperation effects for …
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This paper employs the Panzar and Rosse (1987) and the Bresnahan models to determine the level of competition in the … South African banking sector. This level of competition was tested during the period 1998 to 2008 for the Panzar and Rosse … approach and from 1992 to 2008 for the Bresnahan model. We �find evidence of monopolistic competition in the South African …
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Existing research on the relationship between market concentration and innovation has produced conflicting findings. In addition, the emerging literature on the relationship between corporate governance and innovation tends to focus only on partial effects of corporate governance on innovation....
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The paper analyzes Adam Smith’s views on monopoly focusing on Book IV and V of The Wealth of Nations and argues that Smith has left his analysis of monopoly in an embryonic form while the majority of scholars have assessed it starting from premises different from those, actually though...
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