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Cartel Stability : An Empirical Analysis

Bolotova, Yuliya; Connor, John M.; Miller, Douglas J. - 2006

Using the data on 238 cartelized markets we evaluate econometrically the impact of cartel characteristics as well the market and legal environment of cartel operation on cartel stability. The latter is measured as the expected number of repeated attempts to form a cartel in the same product...

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Sources of Output Growth in Singapore's Services Sector

Mahadevan, Renuka - 2000

decompose output growth into just input growth and total factor productivity (TFP) growth, this approach further decomposes TFP …

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Corporate Taxation, Investment and Productivity : A Firm Level Estimation

Pombo, Cristina - 2011

This paper analyses how corporate taxes can affect investment and productivity. To address this question the paper uses … tax rates to investment into the analysis of the impact of taxation on total factor productivity. Investment and … productivity are shown to respond negatively to an increase in the corporate tax rate. These effects are stronger in bigger firms …

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Efficiency issues in transitional economies : an application to Hungary

Piesse, Jenifer - 1999

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Determinants of productivity in Central Europe during economic transition

Bhandari, Sharad; Kemme, David M. - In: Planning, shortage, and transformation : essays in …, (pp. 233-248). 2000

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Do Internet Converge Prices to the 'Law of One Price'? Evidence from Transaction Data for Airline Tickets

Sengupta, Anirban - 2014

Internet presumably reduces search cost driving price to the competitive level. Evidence from empirical research quantifying dispersion in the electronic based markets has yield mixed results. More recent research has documented near zero dispersion in the electronic markets using transaction...

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The Impact of Cell Phones and BAC Laws on Motor Vehicle Fatality Rates

Loeb, Peter - 2013

This paper develops a set of models for the determinants of automobile fatalities with particular attention devoted to the effects of increased cell phone usage. Cell phones have been associated with both life-taking and life-saving properties. However, prior statistical evaluations of the...

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Competition and Market Strategies in the Swiss Fixed Telephony Market - An Estimation of Swisscom's Dynamic Residual Demand Curve

Balmer, Roberto E. - 2013

Fixed telephony has long been a fundamentally important market for European telecommunications operators. The liberalisation and the introduction of regulation in the end of the 1990s, however, allowed new entrants to compete with incumbents at the retail level. A rapid price decline and a...

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Consumer choice and local network effects in mobile telecommunications in Turkey

Karacuka, Mehmet; Catik, A. Nazif; Haucap, Justus - 2012

Turkish consumer survey data is used to analyze the main factors that affect consumers' choice of different mobile telecommunications networks. The analysis shows that consumers' choice is significantly affected by the choices of other consumers with whom the consumer is more likely to interact....

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Price volatility, speculation and excessive speculation in commodity markets : sheep or shepherd behaviour?

Algieri, Bernardina - 2012

The present study aims to investigate the dynamics of primary commodity prices and the role of speculation over time. In particular the relationship between speculation and price volatility on the one side, and the linkage between excessive speculation and price volatility on the other side, is...

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