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Competition Reform and Household Welfare : A Microsimulation Analysis of the Telecommunication Sector in Ethiopia

Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos; Araar, Abdelkrim; … - 2021

This paper presents a novel method for estimating the likely welfare effects of competition reforms for both current … consumers are more likely to reap the benefits of greater competition. This method represents a powerful tool for supporting the … analysis of competition reforms in developing countries, particularly in sectors known for excluding significant segments of …

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Add-On Pricing, Naive Consumers, and the Hidden Welfare Costs of Education

Kosfeld, Michael - 2011

pricing strategy of firms. Educating consumers may do more harm than good and should thus only be considered if the regulator …

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Scale Economies Can Offset the Benefits of Competition : Evidence from a School Consolidation Reform in a Universal Voucher System

Haan, Monique de - 2011

context scale economies dominated the effects of choice and competition. This points to an often ignored trade-off between … scale and competition …

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The Economics of Credence Goods : On the Role of Liability, Verifiability, Reputation and Competition

Dulleck, Uwe - 2009

has little influence, as predicted. Seller competition drives down prices and yields maximal trade, but does not lead to …

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Distributional Effects of Competition : A Simulation Approach

Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos; Araar, Abdelkrim; … - 2021

Welfare and Competition tool (WELCOM), to estimate with minimum data requirements the direct distributional effects of market … telecommunications and corn products. The results show that increasing competition from four to 12 firms in the mobile telecommunications …

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Market Imperfections and Firm-Sponsored Training

Picchio, Matteo - 2010

Recent human capital theories predict that labor market frictions and product market competition influence firm …, product market competition does not have an effect on firm-sponsored training. We conclude that increasing competition through …

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A New Approach to Testing Marginal ProductivityTheory

Biewen, Martin; Weiser, Constantin - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

We address the long standing question of whether production factors are paid their marginalproducts. We propose a new approach that circumvents the need to specify productionfunctions and to compare marginal products to factor payments. Our approach is based on asimple equation that directly...

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Bribes vs. Taxes : Market Structure and Incentives

Amodio, Francesco - 2018

Firms in developing countries often avoid paying taxes by making informal payments to tax officials. These bribes may raise the cost of operating a business, and the price charged to consumers. To decrease these costs, we designed a feedback incentive scheme for business tax inspectors that...

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Relative Income, Redistribution and Well-Being

FitzRoy, Felix R. - 2010

In a model with heterogeneous workers and both intensive and extensive margins of employment, we consider two systems of redistribution: a universal basic income, and a categorical unemployment benefit. Well-being depends on own-consumption relative to average employed workers' consumption, and...

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Efficient Redistribution : Comparing Basic Income with Unemployment Benefits

FitzRoy, Felix R. - 2010

We compare two systems of income redistribution: unemployment benefits (UB) and basic income (BI). First, for a simple utility function, with both intensive and extensive margins, the unemployed are likely better off with pure BI than pure UB, regardless of labour supply elasticity and wage...

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