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suggestive evidence that quality greatly matters for the impacts at the child level, but not at the mother level. …
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suggestive evidence that quality greatly matters for the impacts at the child level, but not at the mother level. …
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Trade Solution (WITS), this paper presents estimates of the effects of import competition and distance to the technological … competition depends on the firms distance to the technological frontier. The estimates suggest that the lower the foreign … competition and the greater the productivity gap, the lower the probability of firms engaging in innovation. In contrast, when a …
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This paper studies how competition and vertical structure jointly determine generating capacities, retail prices, and … before they buy electricity in the wholesale market, we show that welfare is highest if competition in generation and …
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counterproductive, both with regard to the stated consumer protection objective and the complementary aim to promote competition. …
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reductions were initially driven by a government-sponsored price agreement, the increased competition fostered by multi …
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The functioning of the banking sector is key for economic growth. In this paper, we first gather banks' balance sheet monthly regulatory information in a consistent manner for seven Latin American countries. Second, we estimate lending markups and deposits markdowns in each country over time....
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