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We analyse the effects of a price floor on price wars in the retail market for gasoline. Our theoretical model assumes a Bertrand oligopoly supergame in which firms initially collude by charging the monopolistic price. Once firms detect a deviation from this strategy, they switch to a lower...
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Internet use by insurance firms for online sales of their products and services has been the topic of many analyses …-called "lag"" experienced by the insurance industry as far as electronic commerce is concerned. Some analysts explain this ""lag …"" by the fear of Insurance companies to create distribution channel conflicts, to the extent that online sales could be …
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Legislation, regulation and security codes but also the activities of the fire department contribute to the reduction of the number of fires and the associated damage. But all these instruments are expensive. The CIRANO was contracted to perform an exploratory economic analysis of the activities...
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In a theoretical model, we analyze the effects of various kinds of demand- and supply-side incentives in the context of a model in which patients and doctors must decide not only on an aggregate quantity of health services to use in treating various kinds of illness, but also have a choice...
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This paper looks at the dynamic properties of insurance contracts when insurers have better technology at preventing …
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of carbon at irregular intervals. Permits markets, the use of green accounting, and insurance markets for sudden …
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-to-diagnose injuries. Moreover, substitution between WC and other insurance programs may be observed. The decision of reporting a workplace … show that increases in WC insurance are associated with an increase in the frequency of injuries (elasticities ranging from … evidence (at least in Canada) of substitution between unemployment insurance and WC insurance. Lastly, there are empirical …
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channel. We propose a model which is applied to three products from the insurance sector. This allows us to refine the use of …
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This paper characterizes the optimal insurance contract in an environment where an informed agent can misrepresent the …
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We study the interactions between the capital structure and the technological flexibility choices of firms in a duopoly. When there are bankruptcy costs, a leveraged firm may modify its strategic choices in order to decrease its probability of bankruptcy. We show that, when the capacity level of...
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