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Natural Selection, Irrationality and Monopolistic Competition [PDF]
This paper builds an evolutionary model of an industry where firms produce differentiated products. Firms have different average cost functions and different demand functions.
Luo, Guo Ying
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ABSTRACT This study investigates how the personal characteristics of finance ministers influence political budget cycles in Africa. Using a new dataset covering 300 finance ministers across 23 countries from 1980 to 2020, we find that political budget cycles primarily take the form of increased government consumption during election years.
Christine Olivia Strong
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On the Debt to GDP Ratio in Monopolistic Competition
Many people in Japan and other countries believe that national finances will not stand still and will go bankrupt if deficits continue at present level. It is like a religion. In this paper, however, we prove that this religion is wrong by using a simple
Tanaka Yasuhito
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Optimal taxation with monopolistic competition [PDF]
This paper studies optimal taxation in a Dixit–Stiglitz model of monopolistic competition. In this setting, taxes may be used as an instrument to offset distortions caused by producer markups. Since markups tend to be higher in industries where firms face less elastic demand, tax rates will be pushed lower in these industries.
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Monopolistic Competition, Search Unemployment, and Macroeconomics [PDF]
The monopolistic competition model of Dixit and Stiglitz for the goodsmarket and the search unemployment model of Pissarides are combined ThePissarides part looses its Walrasian goods market and the Dixit-Stiglitz part looses itsWalrasian labour market ...
Ziesemer,Thomas
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The Impact of Geopolitical Risk on Trade Credit
ABSTRACT In light of escalating global geopolitical tensions, understanding how firms respond to external shocks has become a critical issue for policymakers, corporate managers, and investors. This study investigates the impact of geopolitical risk (GPR) on firms' reliance on trade credit (TC)—an essential form of short‐term financing, particularly ...
Wafa'a B. Al‐Yafei, Hamdi Bennasr
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In paper author is critical on EU policv on Sea and Continental ports stressing need for more detailed regulation of market competition among the ports.
Marian Paschke
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Potential market failures in the Portuguese wine industry [PDF]
The wine industry is characterized by a monopolistic competition market structure, with high product differentiation. In this study, based on the predictions of microeconomic theory as applied to market equilibrium and market failure, the statistical ...
Rebelo João, Baptista Alberto
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Researcher–Entrepreneur Relationship and Performance of Innovative Startups
ABSTRACT Many innovative startups are joint ventures between researchers and entrepreneurs, who collaborate in R&D and product commercialization. Government policies such as grants, subsidies, and patent licensing fees act as Pigouvian subsidies, incentivizing R&D by bridging the gap between the social and private returns of innovation.
Yangguang Huang, Helen Hui
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Monopolistic Competition and Deviations from PPP [PDF]
The purpose of this paper is to explain deviations from PPP in an economy charaterived by a mononolistic competitive market structure in which pricing decisions incur costs. That lead producers to pre-set the price path for several periods.
Joshua Aizenman
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