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discrimination ensures efficient output decisions given product characteristics, coordination failures may prevent efficiency in the …
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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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Using a large firm level panel data set from four Asian countries, this paper compares the returns to various internal and external funds. A novel feature of our analysis is that we distinguish between financially constrained and unconstrained firms and determine selectivity-corrected estimates...
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The efficiency of speculative markets, as represented by Fama's 1970 fair game model, is tested on weekly price index … efficiency of nervous systems. In particular, the stationarity and independence of the price innovations are tested over ten … stock market efficiency is: Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Singapore's stock market pricing …
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Suppose an altruistic person, A, is willing to transfer resources to a second person, B, if B comes upon hard times. If B anticipates that A will act in this manner, B will save too little from both agents' point of view. This is the Samaritan's dilemma. The logic of the dilemma has been...
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, subsidies and efficiency the of animal farming. To this end we first have to identify the production frontier and relative … efficiency level for each animal oriented type of farm in the sample. The production frontier and efficiency index for each type … between relative efficiency, farm size and environmentally friendly behavior realizing a non parametric regression of …
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industry’s financial performance, efficiency and quality of service (though it does not attempt to benchmark private hospitals …
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efficiency in different countries and under alternative policy approaches. The key findings are as follows. First, strong scale … subsidisation was also evident in a survey of thirty-one payment systems. Second, the minimalist approach was more efficiency … important policy tools that the central bank may adopt to improve the technical and economic efficiency of payment systems. …
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The aim of this paper is to determine the potential profitability of technical analysis applied on the foreign exchange market. Eight simple rules of trading are tested in five markets. Only long positions are tracked and reported. When neither commissions nor indexation are included in the...
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