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Certification as a Viable Quality Assurance Mechanism: Theory and Suggestive Evidence

Svitkova, Katarina; Ortmann, Andreas - Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education and … - 2006

particular solution of this problem, certification, where an independent agency provides a costly signal, a certificate, to … nonprofit. The assumptions of our model are derived from stylized facts that we distilled from certification systems currently … literature on certification and provides results that are different from those reported up to now. …

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Prompted to Be Good: The Impact of Certification on the Quality of Charities

Svitkova, Katarina - Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education and … - 2007

In this study we model how certification affects managers’ choice of the quality of the nonprofit organizations they … charitable good, one donor, and a certification agency. We assume that the nature of the charitable good does not allow for …

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Certification as a Viable Quality Assurance Mechanism : Theory and Suggestive Evidence

Svitkova, Katarina; Ortmann, Andreas - 2008

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Prompted to Be Good : The Impact of Certification on the Quality of Charities

Svitkova, Katarina - 2008

In this study we model how certification affects managers' choice of the quality of the nonprofit organizations they … charitable good, one donor, and a certification agency. We assume that the nature of the charitable good does not allow for …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014219236

A labor-managed Bertrand oligopoly game with lifetime employment as a strategic commitment

Ohnishi, Kazuhiro - 2024

This paper explores a price-setting oligopoly game where labor-managed firms have the option to provide lifetime employment as a strategic commitment. The game unfolds in two stages. In the first stage, each firm independently and simultaneously decides whether to provide lifetime employment as...

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Endogenous timing in a mixed triopoly with state-owned, labour-managed and capitalist firms

Ohnishi, Kazuhiro - 2024

Over the past approximately 30 years, many researchers have examined oligopoly models where firms endogenously select the timing of their action decisions. Therefore, this paper studies a mixed triopoly model featuring competition between a labour-managed firm, a capitalist firm and a...

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Price-setting mixed duopoly, subsidization and the order of firms’ moves: an irrelevance result

Ohnishi, Kazuhiro - 2020

This paper examines price-setting duopoly games with production subsidies and shows that the optimal production subsidy, profits and economic welfare are identical irrespective of whether (i) a public firm and a private firm simultaneously and independently set prices, (ii) the public firm acts...

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“Matching Auctions” for Hostile Takeovers: A Model with Endogenous Target

Rosato, Antonio - 2008

In this paper we analyze incentives for a potential entrant to get into an oligopolistic Cournot-like market by taking over one of the incumbents and we derive the conditions under which the hostile merger is possible and profitable. The key-feature is that the target of the takeover is...

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Pay What You Like

Fernandez, Jose; Nahata, Babu - 2009

We show that when a seller of a di¤erentiated good o¤ers the product allowing consumers an option to pay what they like, then all consumers will never free ride in equilibrium when their valuations of the good are positive, and, under certain conditions, all will consumers would pay. Further,...

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A Nonparametric Test of Strategic Behavior in the Cournot Model

Deb, Rahul; Fenske, James - 2009

We devise a nonparametric test of strategic behavior in a multiproduct Cournot oligopoly. It is assumed that firms have cost functions that do not change over the period of observation but that market demand can change in each period. Market prices and firm-specific production quantities are...

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