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This paper studies the aggregate substitution and expansion effects triggered by changes in input prices, in a context where firms supply a homogenous commodity and compete in quantities à la Cournot. We derive a sufficient condition for the existence of a Cournot equilibrium and show that this...
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We study the responses of real and nominal prices to random flutuations in costs and money growth using a monetary search economy in which there are no costs or temporal restrictions on sellers' ability to change prices. The economy exhibits a form of price stickiness in that the price level may...
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exporting and productivity shows that exporters on average are more efficient than nonexporters. If that is the case we may also …
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-level productivity and scale effects. I show here that the incorporation of theory-based endogenous markups into AGE models is not … variety (entry), firm scale (productivity), and markups (distortions) to welfare changes differ substantially among the three …
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Allowing for three labor market settings (perfect competition or right-to-manage bargaining, efficient bargaining and monopsony), this paper relies on an extension of Hall's econometric framework for estimating simultaneously price-cost margins and scale economies. Using an unbalanced panel of...
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exporting and productivity shows that exporters on average are more efficient than nonexporters. If that is the case we may also …
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prices, productivity levels and markups as functions of openness to trade at a sectoral level. The theory lends itself … evidence that trade openness exerts a competitive effect, with prices and markups falling and productivity rising. Consistent …
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that are implicit in previous firm-level productivity estimation approaches. We use Belgian firms production data to …
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