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We document empirical support for a key micro-level channel—innovation by young, private firms—through which financial sector deregulation affects economic growth. We find that intrastate banking deregulation, which increased the local market power of banks, decreased the level and risk of...
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We document empirical support for a key micro-level channel --- innovation by young, private firms --- through which financial sector deregulation affects economic growth. We find that intrastate banking deregulation, which increased the local market power of banks, decreased the level and risk...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013035909
change is needed. The rigid system is preferable at early stages of technological development, when (lack of) commitment …
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Latvia’s productivity growth is held back by weak innovation and inefficient resource allocation. The shortage of skilled workers which constrains innovation and the adoption of digital technologies must be addressed through further alignment of vocational and tertiary education with labour...
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. Shared social norms such as growth primacy and reciprocity and values of accepting competition and performance …
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diminish its access to global markets, the scale and efficiency of domestic businesses, the level of competition, and the … planning and infrastructure provision, enhancing competition and increasing investment in innovation and intangibles. This …
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12 countries between 1998 and 2012, this paper first estimates the effect of competition policy on innovation. We find …
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This paper argues that drugs are expensive not because of a lack of competition among research-based pharmaceutical … companies, but because of a lack of competition in the drug approval process. Lack of competition in the drug approval process …
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How can innovation and competition be sustained in closed tight oligopolistic market structures? This question will be … infrastructure based competition seems behind us. It is time now to re-open the regulatory tool box to renew a service based … competition approach with good incentives for all players: the incumbents with their own mobile infrastructure and potential …
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The advent of distributed energy technologies, most notably, distributed solar energy, poses a competitive threat to the electric utility industry. Here I provide a comprehensive assessment of the U.S. electric utility industry's regulatory response to this threat over the past three years....
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