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| Type | Journal Article |
| Scope | Discipline-based scholarship |
| Title | The effect of entry regulation on process innovation in the swiss mail industry |
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| Item Subtype | Original Work |
| Refereed | Yes |
| Status | Published in final form |
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| Journal Title | Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Volkswirtschaft und Statistik = Swiss journal of economics and statistics |
| Publisher | Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Volkswirtschaft und Statistik = Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics |
| Geographical Reach | international |
| ISSN | 0303-9692 |
| Volume | 144 |
| Number | Beitra |
| Page Range | 37 - 55 |
| Date | 2008 |
| Abstract Text | We develop an industry specific modeö of proce competition with product differentiation to analyze the effect of entry regulation on process innovation in the Swiss mail industry. We consider the four most prominent scenarios: regulated monopoly, end-to-end competition, worksharing without bypass, and worksharing with bypass. Based on model calibration with data from the Swiss letter market, we find that the incentives to invest in process innovation decrease with deregulation. However, even accounting for this fact, the efficiency gains from partial liberalization, i.e. worksharing, ensure an increase in social welfare. |
| Official URL | http://www.sjes.ch/papers/2008-I-2.pdf |
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| Other Identification Number | merlin-id:1152 |
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