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Traditional merger analysis, based on market definition and use of concentration measures to infer potential anti-competitive effects, is problematic and difficult to implement when evaluating mergers in industries with differentiated products. This paper discusses an alternative which consists...
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discrimination ensures efficient output decisions given product characteristics, coordination failures may prevent efficiency in the …
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This study reports experimental market power and efficiency outcomes for a computational wholesale electricity market … microstructure is strongly predictive for the relative market power of buyers and sellers, and that high market efficiency is … social mimicry learning via a genetic algorithm. However, market efficiency is substantially reduced. …
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This paper develops a model of pricing and advertising in a matching environment with capacity constrained sellers. Sellers' expenditure on directly informative advertising attracts consumers only probabilistically. Consumers who happen to observe advertisements randomize over the advertised...
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We study Bayesian mechanism design in situations where agents' information may be multi-dimensional, concentrating on mechanisms that lead to efficient allocations. Our main result is that a generalization of the well-known Vickrey-Clarke-Groves mechanism maximizes the planner's "revenue'' among...
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efficiency and some firms outperforming this norm. A regression of total revenue on capital, labour, company dummies and time …-firm efficiency differences was 3.6% for the period 1989 to 1996. The same regression also provides evidence that in the Thai …
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market shares and higher efficiency rankings for small, private, domestically owned banks are associated with better economic … found for hypothesized transmission mechanisms through improved financing for SMEs or greater overall bank credit flows. The …
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The aim of this paper is to analyze the determinants of multiple-bank lending - one of the main features of the bank …-firm relationships in Italy. The analysis suggests that multiple bank lending is significantly and importantly linked with firms … characterised by a greater level of multiple-bank lending. In this respect multiple-bank lending may be the consequence of a risk …
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their design and performance. Asset management companies can trigger moral hazard- inspired bank lending. Empirical … examination of the Thai experience reveals that the moral hazard-inspired bank lending resulted in creating more new NPLs in the …
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