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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Monopolistic Competition"”.
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Essays on International Trade Agreements Under Monopolistic Competition
… of three essays exploring how trade models with monopolistic competition can help us understand and evaluate the history of domestic policy coordination in the multilateral trading system. Relative to perfect competition, imperfect competition gives rise to new cross-border concerns that …
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The Development and Methodology of Imperfect and Monopolistic Competition
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The theory of monopolistic competition : with particular reference to its validity when considered as a theory of the firm in retail trade
… in the early '30's, of the Theories of Monopolistic and Imperfect Competition, provided a valuable contribution to the toolkit of the theoretical economist. Subsequent work has both amplified and clarified the area of general applicability and a sophisticated body of analysis has been …
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"the Effects Of Competition Policy Changes On International Trade And Export Flows: Canada Case Estimates"
<p>ABSTRACT</p> <p>THE EFFECTS OF COMPETITION POLICY CHANGES ON INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND EXPORT FLOWS: CANADA CASE ESTIMATES</p> <p>by</p> <p>RUBIN LUNIKU</p> <p>May 2014</p> <p>Advisor: Assoc. Professor Kevin Cotter</p> <p>Major: Economics </p> <p>Degree: Doctor of Philosophy</p> <p>This …
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Variety, price and quality in the South African automotive industry (2000-2009)
… whether the predictions of the Krugman [1979] monopolistic competition model, the Melitz [2003] model and models of vertical product differentiation hold true for the developments in the South African automotive industry for the period 2000 to 2009. A new and highly disaggregated dataset of car …
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Competitive selection and international trade under monoplistic competition
… and trade theory literatures of Chamberlinian monopolistic competition generally assume homogeneity of technologies between firms and countries. This assumption clashes with the evidence emerging from even a casual observation of the real world where industries including those exposed to …
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Topics on firm heterogeneity and economic policy
… data. Chapter one explores the trends in competition, markups and market shares in a general equilibrium model. Over the last 30 years markups, as well as advertising expenses, have increased substantially. Moreover, there is a positive correlation between marketing expenditures and …
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Three essays on international trade
… optimal trade and FDI policies in a model with monopolistic competition and firm-level heterogeneity similar to Helpman et al. (2004). I find that both the optimal import tariffs and the optimal FDI subsidies discriminate against the more profitable foreign firms. This is because of the …
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Essays in international trade
… (1980) with the Krugman (1980) model of monopolistic competition and transport costs. The commodity structure of production and bilateral trade is fully determined. Two main predictions emerge. There is a quasi-Heckscher-Ohlin prediction. Countries capture larger shares of industries that …
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Optimal and maximal taxation within and among industries with various degrees of competitiveness
… analyzed: a perfectly competitive industry, a monopolistically competitive industry, and a single-plant monopolist. Within monopolistic competition, there are two distinct industry equilibria considered;Each type of industry is considered separately in a partial-equilibrium framework and the …
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Innovación, diferenciación y fenómenos de aglomeración: un modelo evolucionista
… capacities, knowledge and routines sell in a monopolistic-competition market consumers distinguish imperfectly between product variants and innovate to take economic advantage and develop new products growth not only requires improvements in processes and products, but also diversification …
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Productivity, efficiency and competition of UK depository institutions.
… in markets characterised by a moderate degree of monopolistic competition.
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The role of the Supreme Court in antitrust enforcement.
… enforcement—the common law, the rule of reason, monopolistic competition, workable competition, and per se regimentation—before turning to the development of the Chicago School of antitrust analysis, first examining its origins in the law and economics seminars of Aaron Director, then following …
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A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of the Impact of the Digital Age on the Music Industry
… industry is a combination of the oligopoly and monopolistic competition models, consisting of five major labels and many independents. Despite major labels' advantage in large-scale distribution, we argue that digital downloading has the potential to radically alter the current industry …
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The role of production subsidies in general equilibrium macroeconomic models with imperfect competition
… two-sector non-monetary macroeconomic model with monopolistic competition to examine welfare and other related effects of a subsidy provision in the form of lump sum transfers or as some proportion of a variable cost component while firms in the perfectly competitive sector do not.<br/>This …
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Technical Change, Market Structure and Intraindustry Trade Specialization: A Study of the Colombian Manufacturing Industry
… by relaxing the hypotheses of perfect competition and constant returns to scale. To this end, the TFP growth decomposition equation includes the markup and economies of scale parameters. We rely on parametric estimates of elasticity of scale based on translog production functions and …
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Competitiveness of the banking industry in the Southern African development community
… felt on financial development, it must stimulate competition in the domestic banking market without eroding financial stability. Therefore, the central hypothesis of this study is that financial integration can enhance financial development if such integration makes the local banking industry more …
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Modeling, Empirics and Policy Implications of Firm Heterogeneity in International Trade
… and compares the model predictions with those of monopolistic competition and perfect competition frameworks previously established in the standard GTAP model. Chapter 3 proposes a theoretically-consistent way to parameterize the firm heterogeneity module with a focus on the elasticity of …
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Competitiveness and efficiency of commercial banks and economic growth in the frontier economies of Africa
… studies have examined the relationship between competition and efficiency in the banking sector, and others have looked at how this relates to broader economic growth. Goldsmith (1969) and King and Levine (1993), among others, consequently found that financial reform in the banking sector has …
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Institutional and macroeconomic policy dynamics in transition economies
… real business cycle theory. A model with monopolistic competition, sticky prices, and variable effort is shown to be able to account for the empirical findings. The findings indicate that technology shocks generate a negative co-movement between labour productivity and employment in South …
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