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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"imperfect competition"”.
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Essays on imperfect competition in the labor market
This thesis consists of three chapters on imperfect competition in the labor market. The first chapter (joint with Nikolaj Harmon) explores the relationship between an individual's wages and the quality of her opportunities at other firms (her outside options). To overcome the fact that many …
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Property tax shifting under imperfect competition: Theory and application
<p>The objectives of this dissertation are to examine, using hedonic methods, whether site-specific environmental amenities can become sources of market power for property management firms that control them and the extent to which such market power, if present, affects property tax shifting from …
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Three essays in imperfect competition, political economy and international trade
… Chapter 2, Double-edged incentive competition for FDI, we study the impact of special interest lobbying on competition between two countries for a multinational in a common agency framework. \Ve address the following questions. On the positive side, is special interest lobbying a …
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Imperfect competition in product markets and labor markets, general equilibrium and unemployment
… it is analyzed if promoting product market competition can help to to fight unemployment in Europe. We have used a general equilibrium model in order to study how reducing mark-ups and increasing productivity in one sector affect aggregate unemployment for an exogenously given minimum real …
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Imperfect competition and exchange rate pass-through in the international rice market
… (PTM) model which postulates that tests for imperfect competition in international trade can be based on the observed pricing decisions of exporters (Krugman 1987, and Knetter 1989 and 1991). A fixed effects, cross-sectional time-series model is developed to determine the degree to which the …
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The role of production subsidies in general equilibrium macroeconomic models with imperfect competition
… 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 analysis is first …
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Essays on Environmental Taxes, Tax Evasion and Public Goods Supply in the Presence of Imperfect Competition
… economies and the role of taxation under imperfect competition. These three economies share the fact that at least one of their industries operate under imperfect competition, but each is concerned with a particular problem which has been studied extensively under perfect competitive …
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Commercial policy intervention in intra-industry trade: A dual approach to general equilibrium analysis
… by new developments in trade theory stressing imperfect competition and/or increasing returns to scale (IRS). It has been found that the exercise of trade policy to protect an IRS industry may benefit an economy, even if this economy can not influence the prices of foreign goods. Recent work, …
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Industry structure and labour market flexibility in the South African manufacturing sector : a time series and panel data approach
… South African manufacturing reveals evidence of imperfect competition. We find an average mark-up of 50% for the period 1970 to 2004. Results suggest that there is no consistent trend in the mark-up over time. Extending this analysis, we find that two thirds of total labour employed in South …
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Essays on banking
This thesis is concerned with banking market imperfections, most especially real resources costs and imperfect competition. A special focus is made on the empirical estimation of the importance of such imperfections in the Portuguese market. The thesis is organised in three different essays, being …
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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
… 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 established. In …
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Essays on International Trade Agreements Under Monopolistic Competition
… 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 governments do not …
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Essays on Indonesian Banking: Competition, Efficiency, and its Role in Monetary Policy Transmission
… in other studies, it reveals much evidence of imperfect competition in Indonesian provincial markets. The estimated values of H-statistics for the sample period 2001-2008 are positive ranging between 0.31 - 0.62 which is consistent with the study by Claessens and Laeven (2004). We find that the …
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Essays is bank competition and credit policy
This thesis estimates the eect of competition in the financial sector using both individual level data and economic theory, and explores the role of credit policy in mitigating potential adverse effects of imperfect competition. The first essay uses heterogeneous exposure to large bank mergers to …
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Potential Impacts of Pharmaceutical Uses of Transgenic Tobacco: The Case of Human Serum Albumin and Gaucher's Disease Treatment
… In both cases economic surplus model with imperfect competition is employed to assess the size and distribution of benefits from these alternative uses of tobacco. An introductory chapter presents an overview of the topic followed by chapters 2 and 3 which contain the two case studies. The …
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Oligopolistic market-making and inventory heterogeneity
This article examines market making under imperfect competition. A novel dataset on detailed individual-level intraday market-making helps to raise new questions on aspects of liquidity in the environment. The paper suggests a dynamic duopoly market-making model. The general form of the equilibrium …
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Mrs. Robinson revisited
… Joan Robinson in her book, The Economics of Imperfect Competition, digresses first on the concept of rent to a heterogeneous resource, and secondly on the four cost curves of an industry. This study re-examines these digressions and seeks to provide the student of economics with a clearer …
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Essays on the Macroeconomic Effects of Imperfect Banking Competition and Other Financial Frictions
… of financial frictions and in particular, imperfect banking competition, on different macroeconomic aspects. The thesis consists of a short introductory chapter and three papers. The first paper investigates the impact of imperfect banking competition on aggregate fluctuations in a dynamic …
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Ownership, efficiency and the modern enterprise : a theoretical perspective
… private sector, due to market failures such as imperfect competition. The case of the natural monopoly is especially important, because there is no scope for improving allocative efficiency by increasing competition. Governments attempt to address this problem by regulating or nationalising …
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