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stems from more intensive competition, manifested through external economies of scale and longer production runs. We finish …
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This paper examines whether or not hospital competition in a market with fixed reimbursement prices can prompt …. This paper assesses whether this aim has been achieved and competition led to improvements in quality. For our estimation … improved) for patients living in more competitive markets after the introduction of hospital competition in January 2006. Our …
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integration emerges whether there is Cournot or Bertrand competition in the input market. The degree of integration in the …
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This paper centres around the question of ownership of firms and managerial competition and how these affect managers … affected by both ownership and competition since both ownership structure and competition provide bargaining chips to employees … fierce market competition and no lock-in the allocation of ownership does not play a role (as one might expect), provided …
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competition for matches may solve hold-up and coordination problems generated by the absence of complete contingent contracts. In … particular, this paper shows that when matching is assortative and sellers’ investments precede market competition then … coordination failures. Different types of efficiency arise when buyers undertake investment before market competition. These …
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This paper presents a model of competition between operators on urban local bus routes in which passengers always board … predictions are consistent with observed features of the on-the-road competition on urban local bus routes. On express coach … competition in practice. …
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competition is weak and/or when (b) family-owned firms pass management control down to the eldest sons (primo geniture). European … firms report lower levels of competition, while French and British firms also report substantially higher levels of primo … market competition and family firms account for about half of the long tail of badly managed firms and up to two thirds of …
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stylised facts are considered: globalisation, information technology, and competition. Globalisation and information technology … may have benefited the most productive firms more and the growth of competition may at the same time have stimulated the …
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This paper investigates whether there is convergence in Total Factor Productivity towards the technological frontier at the establishment level. We find convergence to the frontier is statistically and quantitatively important, suggesting the existence of technology spillovers. Foreign...
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In this paper we examine the causal impact of competition on management quality. We analyze the hospital sector where … geographic proximity is a key determinant of competition, and English public hospitals where political competition can be used to … survival rates from emergency heart attack admissions (AMI). More importantly, we find that higher competition (as indicated by …
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