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; price ; district heating ; Sweden … price regulation by conforming to customers' and authorities' expectations. It is argued that utilities can meet …' price setting schemes are insensitive to customer complaints, they are significantly influenced by the passive monitoring by …
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price regulation by conforming to customers’ and authorities’ expectations. It is argued that utilities can meet …’ price setting schemes are insensitive to customer complaints, they are significantly influenced by the passive monitoring by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008534016
price regulation by conforming to customers' and authorities' expectations. It is argued that utilities can meet …' price setting schemes are insensitive to customer complaints, they are significantly influenced by the passive monitoring by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316235
. Recognizing that payments differ in the urgency with which they need to be settled, Fedwire offers banks a decreasing block-price … schedule. This approach allows Fedwire to price discriminate, charging high fees for urgent payments and low fees for less … urgency for immediate settlement is great enough, banks will respond to marginal price; otherwise, they will respond to …
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. Recognizing that payments differ in the urgency with which they need to be settled, Fedwire offers banks a decreasing block-price … schedule. This approach allows Fedwire to price discriminate, charging high fees for urgent payments and low fees for less … urgency for immediate settlement is great enough, banks will respond to marginal price; otherwise, they will respond to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013017570
regulation. The profit-sharing rule is a key element of the price choice and our analysis focuses on the two most common ones …. Then, customer-owned firms, like forprofit ones, need some external price regulation. In the second part we address this … customerowned ones, and hence price regulation is affected by the ownership mode. Another factor that is shown to condition the …
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In this paper, we study a new channel to explain firms' price setting behavior. We propose that uncertainty about … deviation increase in oil price volatility leads to a 0.38 percent increase in the markup of firms with average oil exposure. …
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The rise of blockbuster pharmaceutical acquisitions has prompted fears that unprecedented market concentration will weaken competition. Two of the most prominent concerns focus on the upstream and downstream ends of the pharmaceutical industry: (1) the concern that these mergers will concentrate...
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lower price for the service. …
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A considerable share of public investment comes not only from public budgets but also from public utility companies. One major area of investment is energy and water supply, where the utility companies have substantial fixed assets in the form of distribution infrastructure. Using new microdata...
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