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This paper sheds light on the impact sustainable and unsustainable corporate practices have on equity financing. We present a unique framed field experiment in which professional private equity investors competed in closed auctions to acquire fictive firms. We hence observe that corporate...
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the intensity of competition between potential buyers influence it. Empirical analysis of licensing contracts signed …
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This paper investigates the degree of competition in the WAEMU financial industry over the period 2002-2007 using firm … to assess the level of competition. The results show that the prevailing market structure in the WAEMU financial industry … is concentrated and financial intermediaries operate under imperfect competition. Although competition was fierce during …
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We present a Cournot model that compares the critical threshold of collusion in Duopoly and Oligopoly Markets where the actors are private, mixed or public. We assume that the incentive critical threshold for collusion depends on the interconnection fees. The different threshold values...
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interval of values of the spillover parameter such that the relationship between competition and growth is an inverted-U-shape. …
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is high, a single sender never discloses. Competition restores full disclosure only if some of the senders are … symmetric equilibria approach full disclosure as competition increases. …
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This paper shows that dominant firms may wish to encourage competition in vertically-related markets. It shows that …
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number of agents because competition reduces the agents' informational monopoly power. However, this environment also … tendency to choose more 'generous' (and more efficient) contract menus over time. We find that competition leads to a … substantially higher probability of trade, and that, overall, competition between agents generates the most efficient outcomes. …
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secondary market where independent remanufacturers enter the competition. An environmental regulation imposing a minimum level … regulation. However, if an environmental regulation is to be implemented, collusion should be repressed since competition …
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According to a recent literature, the positive effect of competition is supposed to be growing with the proximity to … the technological frontier. Using a variety of indicators, the paper tests the effect of competition and regulation on … 1979-2003. Results show no evidence of a positive effect of competition growing with the proximity to the frontier. Two …
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