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This note analyzes some properties of optional two-part pricing in a two-type economy. First, the optimal contracts …
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This note analyzes some properties of optional two-part pricing in a two-type economy. First, the optimal contracts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009024334
Despite the effects of the international crisis, real nonhydrocarbon GDP (NHGDP) growth in 2009 exceeded the average of 6 percent. Algeria’s good economic performance supported by the authorities’ prudent fiscal and monetary policies and the favorable external environment are...
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Ex Post Assessments are intended to provide an opportunity to step back from continuing program relations to consider an analysis of the economic problems facing the country, review progress under IMF-supported programs, and draw forward-looking lessons for future IMF engagement. The program...
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Saudi Arabia is the world’s largest oil exporter and has employed its spare capacity to help stabilize the global oil market, providing important support to the global economy. The associated increase in oil revenues has resulted in sharply higher fiscal and current account surpluses and...
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Despite its advantages, the borderless nature of electronic commerce poses serious challenges to governments worldwide regarding taxation. Where the goods or services are deliverable digitally (such as software or music) it is difficult to trace their origin for the purpose of taxation. Attempts...
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Recently, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has accused breakfast cereal manufacturers of illegal monopolization (1971).A major basis for the charge is the FTC belief that high advertising expenditures by the companies create effective entry barriers. One FTC study (1969) reached this...
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Business-to-business relationships within sustained monopolies, such as those within Defence Procurement, have received …
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Monopolies can have a great impact on economic efficiency and therefore on the market. Thus, states try to avoid either … the existence of monopolies or their impacts on the markets. This case study aims at a real case of Google, that has been … sued by the European Union for its unlawful behavior. It is important to understand, how monopolies work and how the …
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