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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"FREE ENTRY"”.
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Price discrimination in free-entry markets
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1983.
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Pollution Abatement Under Oligopoly With Free-Entry: Theory And Evidence
… reason for this is that in oligopoly models with free-entry the abatement subsidy encourages new firms into the market via higher profits thereby raising the level of total emissions in the industry, even though at the same time it lowers each firm's emissions. The overarching findings indicate …
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Revenue Fees Garner More Profit Than Per-Unit Fees.
… functions, with both a fixed number of firms and free entry.</p>
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The Meaning and Requirements of the Misuse Doctrine in Patent and Copyright Law
… used in further innovative activities, and the free-entry policy to allow the entry of third-party's follow-on innovations. Based on the discussion of IP policies, this dissertation will discuss the characteristics of IP misuse and the application of antitrust law to IP exploitations. In …
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Essays in R&D and competition policy in an open economy setting
… essay explores the impact of trade policy on entry regulation in an open economy setup. We find that under an open economy framework free entry can lead to a socially insufficient number of firms can arise. This contrasts the results obtained under closed economy setup where a socially …
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An Investigation into quality assurance of the Open Source Software Development model
… development approach with public communication, free participation, free entry to the project for newcomers and unlimited access to the source code. The research examines applied quality assurance practices from a process view rather than from a product view. The research follows ideographic and …
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Three Essays on Search: Optimal Policy with Heterogeneous Workers
… market condition, equilibrium is determined by free entry condition, optimal productivity investment decision, the participation constraint plus the steady state conditions. In this model I also show that heterogeneity is not the cause of multiplicity. The second chapter utilises the previous …
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Innovation and Growth: Theoretical Models and Analytical Simulations of Spatial, Clustering and Competition Effects
… a way in which firms enter a market such that entry is not necessarily available to all potential entrants. This limit on the market supplied by innovating firms is characterised by discrete instead of free entry. Entry by discrete firms allows entering firms to invest in innovation in response …
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The institutional framework of community formation: the law and economics of municipal incorporation in California
… of institutional structures that restrict entry into the market for local public goods. One view suggests that entry restrictions will be efficiency inducing, thus resulting in reduced public outlays after their institution. The alternative perspective suggests that entry restrictions are a …
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The Correlation Between a General Critical Thinking Skills Test and a Discipline Specific Critical Thinking Test For Associate Degree Nursing Students
… content in multiple choice items. The CTOE, a free entry, written response test developed in 1998, assesses critical thinking in nursing situations using a partial credit model. A convenience sample of 434 sophomore ADN students from 9 programs in Texas completed the demographic survey and …
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Competitive selection and international trade under monoplistic competition
… analyzed. In the presence of cost asymmetries free entry leads to the endogenization of the level of industry efficiency through a competitive selection process whereby more efficient entrants displace less efficient incumbents in the industry. Contrary to the standard model, entry will not …
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Essays in dynamic political economy
… the evolution of organizations that allow free entry and exit of members, such as cities, trade unions, religious organizations and cooperatives. The organization chooses a policy, which influences the set of agents who want to become members, but current members decide policy in the next …
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Essays in Macroeconomics and Heterogeneity
… competition, firm heterogeneity and entry of firms alter the transmission of monetary policy through the lens of a New Keynesian model. The standard textbook New Keynesian model relies on counter-cyclical profits for monetary policy to have an effect as recently pointed out by Broer …
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Essays on International Trade and Business Cycles
… The approach relies on cost minimization and free entry condition with frictions, which allows decomposing sources of economies of scale into a sloping marginal cost curve and fixed cost. The US manufacturing industry data show that industry-level economies of scale are more strongly …
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Essays on auctions, contests, and games
… Sweeting, studies the benefits of regulating entry into procurement auctions, relative to standard auctions in which bidders are allowed to enter and bid freely. Specifically, we study the relationship between auction outcomes and the precision of information bidders have about their costs …
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Essays on Money and Credit: A New Monetarist Approach
… to the history of trades. Although there is free entry of lenders in the credit market, each lender has to pay a cost to contact a borrower. We show that a lower cost makes each borrower better off from the perspective of the contracting date, results in less variability in a borrower's …
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Essays on the Macroeconomics of Labor Markets
… in the standard model. As this model assumes free entry, the expected value of vacancy posting is, and will always remain, zero. Hence, there is no point in waiting. Second, and constructively, we show that when the mass of entrepreneurs is finite and there is heterogeneity in firm-specific …
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Essays on Bargaining and Markets
Chapter 1: Inefficiency in a Frictionless Market Gale and Sabourian (2006) discuss the existence of inefficient Markov-perfect equilibrium (MPE) in a heterogeneous market. This paper shows that the example they provide cannot be supported as a MPE. Indeed, with two buyers and two sellers, the …