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Network topography and default contagion in China's financial system

Fittje, Jens Christian; Wagner, Helmut - 2020

The topography of China's financial network is unique. Is it also uniquely robust to contagion? We explore this question using network theory. We find that networks that are more concentrated are less fragile when connectivity is low. However, they remain vulnerable to the occurrence of...

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Bork's hoax : antitrust and the internet market

Alleman, James H. - 2021

Robert Bork's Antitrust Paradox (1978) has been justification for lack of antitrust behavior for over four decades. His test essentially asks if consumers are harmed by the pricing practices of the firm in the market in which they purchase the good or service. Even if these firms are monopoly or...

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Competition policy questions in mobile network sharing

Pápai, Zoltán; Csorba, Gergely; Nagy, Péter; McLean, Aliz - 2018

Network sharing agreements have become increasingly widespread in mobile telecommunications markets. They carry undeniable advantages to operators and consumers alike, but also the potential for consumer harm. Not all NSAs are created equal: the assessment of the balance of harm and benefits to...

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Antitrust failures : the internet giants

Taschdjian, Martin; Alleman, James - 2018

Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google, as well as Twitter – the FANG companies – have transformed society with both positive and negative effects. Soaring consumer access to information, news, social networks, and entertainment has been stimulated by the ever-more ubiquitous and falling...

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Regional economic development and competitiveness : a study of leading and competitive sectors and shift-share analysis of Diyarbakir-Şanliurfa Region, Turkey

Deniz, Zühal Çelebi - 2014

Disparities across regions and provinces are on the agenda of both developed and developing countries. Differences in terms of development and income between regions are becoming more important policy challenge particularly in developing countries. As a developing country, inter-regional...

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The competitiveness of regions in the EU

Wokoun, René; Damborský, Milan; Kouřilová, Jana; … - 2012

The competitiveness of EU regions This paper results from the project financed by the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (GA ÈR). The project was carried out by the research team consisting of both The Centre of Regional and Administrative Studies and The Regional Studies Department's members...

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Territorial competitiveness in Romania : the role of economic clusters

Pauna, Carmen Beatrice; Chilian, Nona Mihaela - 2012

Analyzing the competitive performance of Romanian industry, one may say that Romania has an economy based mainly on the manufacturing industry, characterized by features such as: · high labor intensity, especially in industries such as textiles, knitwear, apparel, leather and footwear; · high...

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Broadband industry structure and cybercrime : an empirical analysis

Gideon, Carolyn; Hogendorn, Christiaan - 2015 - Preliminary draft, Draft 2.0

from cybercrime, their incentives to do so are often insufficient. The presence of competition in providing broadband … nature of attack attempts found on networks served by ISPs that are monopolists with those that face competition. We also …

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Models for evaluating territorial competitiveness

Chitea, Mihai Alexandru - In: Agrarian economy and rural development : realities and …, (pp. 269-272). 2015

The present study aims to highlight the main models for evaluating territorial competitiveness used at international and European level starting from the following premise: despite the difficulties encountered in the process of defining and understanding the competitiveness term and of numerous...

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Internet of things (IoT) platform competition : consumer switching versus provider multihoming

Basaure, Arturo; Vesselkov, Alexandr - 2018

competition as it makes consumer switching and service provider multihoming prohibitively expensive. Moreover, network effects … switching costs and provider multihoming on market structure and competition by means of agent-based modelling. Simulation … results suggest that service provider multihoming plays a key role in increasing market competition when switching costs …

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