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Competition policy and development: key issues for developing countries – a briefing
Singh, Ajit; Dhumale, Rahul - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1999
development and social welfare in relation to the present and prospective discussions on competition policy in the WTO, UNCTAD …, OECD and other fora. Although this is the immediate backdrop for an examination of competition policy in relation to … for developing countries which emerge from the theoretical and empirical analysis of competition policy and economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259537
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Competition, Competition Policy, Competitiveness, Globalisation and Development
Singh, Ajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper explores the connections between globalization, competition, competition policy and competitiveness. These …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111773
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Industrial firms competition and corruption
Jellal, Mohamed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper examines the main determinants of firms tax evasion and corruption in the formal industrial sector. In our model psychological morale of bureaucratic agents are important to explain corruption.It is shown that the presence of rents linked to favoritism and patronage practices is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113076
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Strategies for Managing Bank’s Legacy Assets:part 2 (of 2) Assessment of strategies and their implementation
Jenk, Justin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
This two-part working paper series represents a distillation of practical approaches with regard to the successful management of so-called “legacy assets” which include both impaired as well as non-performing loans, particularly in those in the real estate and property sectors. This two-part...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011265335
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Meltzer-Richard and social mobility hypothesis: revisiting the income-redistribution nexus using German choice data
Pfarr, Christian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
constraint. This study aims at eliciting preferences for redistribution in Germany with the help of a Discrete Choice Experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259582
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Do Consumers' Preferences Really Matter? - A Note on Spatial Competition with Restricted Strategies
Buechel, Berno; Klein, Jan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
In the framework Hotelling-Downs competition two players can freely choose a position along a one-dimensional market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109786
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Generalized Comparative Statics for Political Economy Models
Dotti, Valerio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The Median Voter Theorem is an extremely popular result in Political Economy that holds only if the policy space is unidimensional. This assumption restricts its use to a class of very simple problems. In most applications in the literature this implied an oversimplification of the problem...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109938
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Median voter model cannot solve all the problems of voting system
Islam, Jamal; Mohajan, Haradhan; Moolio, Pahlaj - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The median voter theorem is one of the most prominent results of formal political theory and economics, and is widely used to study interactions between them. The median voter is the person in the middle of the distribution on the single dimension and is a more accurate predictor of decision...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111664
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Re-examination of the Mayer Median Voter Model of Trade Policy
Dhingra, Swati - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This paper examines the empirical validity of the Mayer-Heckscher-Ohlin (M-H-O) model. We test the inequality-tariff relationship studied by Dutt & Mitra (2002) as well as a large country version of Mayer’s model. Dutt and Mitra (2002) found support for the inequality-tariff implication of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789459
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On the Political Economy of the Informal Sector and Income Redistribution
Hatipoglu, Ozan; Ozbek, Gulenay - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
In this paper we analyze a general equilibrium model in which agents choose to be employed in formal or in the informal sector. The formal sector is taxed to provide income subsidies and the level of redistribution is determined endogenously through majority voting. We explore how the demand for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789656