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Monopolistic Competition and Search Unemployment: A Pissarides-Dixit-Stiglitz model

open access: yes
We integrate two workhorse models in economics: The monopolistic competition model of Dixit and Stiglitz and the search unemployment model of Pissarides. Many results of the original models survive. New results concerning the effects of changes in labour
Ziesemer,Thomas
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Monopolistic Competition in a Large Economy

open access: yes, 2012
Fort a small economy, the equilibrium under monopolistic competition may not be Pareto optimal. The paper deals with the condition for the existence and Pareto optimality of equilibrium under monopolistic competition in a large economy with ...
Biswas, Tapan
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From Empire to Aid: Analysing Persistence of Colonial Legacies in Foreign Aid to Africa

open access: yesJournal of International Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT For decades now, Western development agencies and donors have been castigated for their colonial biases in providing aid to Africa. It is well established that donors provide considerably more foreign aid to their former colonies relative to other countries.
Swetha Ramachandran
wiley   +1 more source

Quality Distortions in Monopolistic Competition

open access: yesEconomic Modelling
In this paper, we explore how heterogeneous firms decide on vertical and horizontal qualities of their products. We show that if increasing the product qualities appears to be relatively costly, more productive firms choose higher vertical quality but lower horizontal quality. We also document distortions that arise in our framework.
Kichko, Sergei   +2 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Natural Selection, Irrationality and Monopolistic Competition

open access: yes
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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Monopolistic Competition, International Trade and Firm Heterogeneity - a Life Cycle Perspective [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper presents a dynamic international trade model based on monopolistic competition, where observed intra-industry differences at a given point in time reflect different stages of the firm’s life cycle. New product varieties of still higher quality
Kvedaras, Virmantas   +2 more
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Late Holocene environmental history of Dojran, Macedonia: Investigating the interplay of imperial dynamics and climatic change

open access: yesJournal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study presents a high‐resolution, multi‐proxy reconstruction of environmental and land‐use change from Lake Dojran over historical times (last 2500 years), combining pollen, biomarkers, radiocarbon dating, Ottoman taxation records and other historical data.
Alessia Masi   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Q investment models, factor complementary and monopolistic competition [PDF]

open access: yes, 1991
The observed fact that firms invest even if capacities are not fully employed does not fit well into most standard formalizations of optimal firm behavior.
Licandro, Omar
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Coping Practices of Small‐ and Medium‐Sized Enterprises Facing Power Asymmetry in Digital Platform Business

open access: yesStrategic Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Digital platform (DP) enterprises have risen to the top of the global economy by inverting traditional business models. They earn money through matchmaking, transaction facilitation, and efficient orchestration of other stakeholders' resources.
Lukas R. G. Fitz, Jochen Scheeg
wiley   +1 more source

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