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Competition and market strategies in the Swiss fixed telephony market
Balmer, Roberto E. - 2015
at the retail level. A rapid price decline and a decline in revenues followed. Increased retail competition eventually … be justified on the basis of a lack of competition. …
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Determinanten der Wettbewerbsfähigkeit von Milchviehbetrieben außerhalb von Erzeugungszentren
Bronsema, Hauke; Sonntag, Winnie; Theuvsen, Ludwig - In: Wie viel Markt und wie viel Regulierung braucht eine …, (pp. 185-196). 2014
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Impact of competition and regulation on prices of mobile services : evidence from France
Grzybowski, Lukasz; Nicolle, Ambre; Zulehner, Christine - 2017
In this paper, we assess the impact of competition and regulation on prices of mobile services in France. We estimate … May 2011 and December 2014. In this time period, the obtained quality-adjusted price index decreased by about 51% as …-adjusted prices to a set of competition and regulation variables and find that the launch of 4G networks by mobile operators was the …
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Import competition and firm productivity : evidence from German manufacturing
Braeuer, Richard; Mertens, Matthias; Slavtchev, Viktor - 2020
This study analyzes empirically the effects of import competition on firm productivity (TFPQ) using administrative firm …-level panel data from German manufacturing. We find that only import competition from high-income countries is associated with … positive incentives for firms to invest in productivity improvement, whereas import competition from middle- and low …
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Market regulations, prices, and productivity
Cette, Gilbert; Lopez, Jimmy; Mairesse, Jacques - In: The American economic review 106 (2016) 5, pp. 104-108
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Does globalization affect regional growth? : evidence for NUTS-2 regions in EU-27
Polasek, Wolfgang; Sellner, Richard - 2011 - Preprint
We analyze the influence of newly constructed globalization measures on regional growth for the EU-27 countries between 2001 and 2006. The spatial Chow-Lin procedure, a method constructed by the authors, was used to construct on a NUTS-2 level a complete regional data for exports, imports and...
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Human capital, R&D and productivity convergence of European regions : a spatial analysis of RHOMOLO's semi endogenous growth approach.
Manca, Fabio; Piroli, Giuseppe - 2011 - Very preliminary
The aim of the paper is to test the Benhabib and Spiegel (2005) productivity (TFP) catch-up framework on European regions. Differences in the stock of human capital across regions are hypothesized to be the cause of differences in the speed by which follower regions converge and catch-up with...
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The distribution of the economic activity in European region : identification of cluster
López, Fernando A.; Angulo, Ana M.; Mur, Jésus; Artal … - 2011
Agglomeration economies play an important role in the explanation of the development and regional growth. For this reason, there exists a growing interest in the analysis of standards of co-localisation of the economic activities. This topic has been dealt with from different approaches using a...
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Trends in convergence in EU : differences between EU-10 and EU-15
Albu, Lucian-Liviu - 2013
Early, the convergence theory was suggestively expressed in the Solow model. This can be shown in line with the fact that while economic development is advancing (expressed by the income per capita growth), on long run there is a general convergence process among countries. Generally, empirical...
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Regional dynamics of economic performance in the EU : to what extent spatial spillovers matter?
Özyurt, Selin; Dées, Stéphane - 2015
This paper investigates the main determinants of economic growth in the European Union from a regional perspective. The analysis is based on a recently available dataset from the European Cluster Observatory covering 253 European regions over the period 2002-2008. In addition to the traditional...
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