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Competition, entry, and the social returns to infrastructure in transition economies

Aghion, Philippe ORCID: 0000-0002-9019-1677 and Schankerman, Mark (1999) Competition, entry, and the social returns to infrastructure in transition economies. . Centre for Economic Policy Research (Great Britain), London, UK.

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Abstract

This paper presents a simple model for analysing the contribution of investments in physical and institutional infrastructure to the transition process. In addition to the direct cost savings, infrastructure investment generates important indirect effects, or transition impacts. The model shows that, by reducing transaction costs, infrastructure intensifies product market competition. This leads to more effective weeding out of the existing high-cost firms in the market. In this model, infrastructure also increases the incentives for low-cost firms to restructure which generates additional efficiency gains, but exacerbates the existing cost asymmetry in the economy. Finally, infrastructure investment enhances the incentives for relatively low-cost firms to enter the market, and thus improves the efficiency of the entry process. The importance of these transition impacts of infrastructure depends on features of the economy, such as the degree of cost asymmetry among firms, the proportion of high-cost firms, the cost of restructuring, and entry costs for new firms.

Item Type: Monograph (Discussion Paper)
Official URL: http://www.cepr.org
Additional Information: © 1999 Philippe Aghion and Mark Schankerman
Divisions: Economics
STICERD
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor
JEL classification: O - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth > O1 - Economic Development
P - Economic Systems > P2 - Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies
L - Industrial Organization > L1 - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance
Date Deposited: 27 May 2008 13:56
Last Modified: 11 Mar 2024 03:30
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/5087

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