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Two firms produce a good with a horizontal and a vertical characteristic called quality. The difference in the … unobservable quality levels determines how the firms share the market. We consider two scenarios: In the first one, firms disclose … quality; in the second one, they send costly signals thereof. Under non-comparative advertising a firm advertises its own …
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safety and quality in hospitals experience sharing and dissemination (RISQ+H) was created to support the dissemination of …
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, differentiation) or by internal ones such as quality management and self-managed teams. On the basis of data from 602 large firms …. Specifically it was found that firms using self managed teams, total quality management and employee participation are more likely …
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In this paper, we present the different cost sharing methods one can find in the economic literature. We regroup the methods into three sets : the proportional methods, the cooperative game theory methods and the serial cost sharing methods. All those methods are presented through the stylized...
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It is important that the choice of a cost sharing method be made on the basis of its general equity and consistency properties rather than on the basis of the results it may generate in a given application. In this paper, we partition the different methods according to whether they satisfy a...
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pricing. In this case, there is only one price for each good or service, although prices may vary from one category of …
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In this document, we present the notion of a cost game, defined as a cooperative game where the gain from cooperation is the cost reduction obtained when the projects of a set of agents are realized in a coordinated way. The problem is then to decide how this gain will be shared among agents or...
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In this paper, we present the main solution concepts for cooperative games, which have been used in the context of cost games. We put a special emphasis on the concept of core. We also present the concepts of semicore, von Neumann-Morgenstern stable set, nucleolus and Shapley value. However, we...
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performances and pricing. We estimate those models on French panel data. We find that the choice by the local authority depends on …
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services in order to compare their performance and pricing. We estimate the models from panel data in France. We show that the …
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