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How do firms in high-income countries adjust to emerging market competition? We estimate how a representative panel of … more differentiated firms that survive the increase in competition have better performance ex-post, but are ex-ante more …
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The US mobile phone service industry has dramatically consolidated over the last two decades. One justification for consolidation is that merged firms can provide consumers with larger coverage areas at lower costs. We estimate the willingness to pay for national coverage to evaluate this...
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Using a comprehensive dataset of all medium and large enterprises in China between 1998 and 2007, we show that … industrial policies allocated to competitive sectors or that foster competition in a sector increase productivity growth. We … measure competition using the Lerner Index and include as industrial policies subsidies, tax holidays, loans, and tariffs …
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This paper develops and simulates a dynamic model of strategic telecom competition. The goal is to understand how … regulatory policy, particularly relative to lease charges for local network elements, affects telecom competition, investment …
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This paper distinguishes between the competitive position of U.S. firms and that of the U.S. and other countries as geographical locations for production. While the share of the U.S. in world exports of manufactures fellmore than 40 per cent between 1957 and 1977, the share of all U.S. firms...
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We study how political factors shape competition in the mobile telecommunication sector. We show that the way a … government designs the rules of the game has an impact on concentration, competition, and prices. Pro-competition regulation … competition. Government intervention has large redistributive effects: U.S. consumers would gain $65bn a year if U.S. mobile …
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We present a model of market competition and product differentiation in which consumers' attention is drawn to the …
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; they do not include the likely fee increases resulting from less competition among auditors. We calculate that the latter …
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host-country research and development effort in response to foreign competition, is one of three examining the impact of …
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employment in the presence of foreign competition shocks. We exploit the fact that in a small open economy such as Canada the … a sample of collective bargaining agreements from 1965 to 1983. Our estimation strategy consists of specifying the wage … by 0.19%. We use our estimates to trace the effects of foreign competition on the industry and firm-level sales and value …
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