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. Using Italian data, we find, as in Kim [Kim, S., 1995. Expansion of markets and the geographic concentration of economic …–908.], Holmes and Stevens [Holmes, T.J., and Stevens, J.J., 2002. Geographic concentration and establishment scale, Review of … suggest that large plants are more likely to cluster within narrow geographical units (concentration), while small …
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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 …. Ownership provides protections which may improve or dull employees’ incentives for human capital investment. When there is …
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constitutions: non-profit cooperatives and outside ownership. In the former, ownership is shared among a group of consumers on a one …
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We show that allocation of ownership matters even in a long-term relationship where problems of opportunism are less … severe unless agents are very patient. Ownership structure is chosen to give the agents best incentives to cooperate. The … be minimal. The worst ownership structure of the one-shot game is good in the repeated setting because it provides the …
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This paper examines the evolution of a skew distribution of firm sizes from the viewpoint of the 'Bounds' approach to market structure. It confines attention to the role played by non-strategic factors (statistical independence, and cost sideeffects). A model is proposed, which leads to a...
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This paper examines the frequency, pervasiveness, and determinants of product switching by US manufacturing firms. We find that one-half of firms alter their mix of five-digit SIC products every five years, that product switching is correlated with both firm- and firm-product attributes, and...
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This paper proposes an equilibrium concept for a class of games in which players make irreversible costly decisions; these games have been widely used in the recent I.O. literature. The equilibrium concept is defined, not in the space of strategies, but in the space of (observable) outcomes. It...
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This paper uses a difference-in-difference estimator to test whether the introduction of patient choice and hospital competition in the English NHS in January 2006 has prompted hospitals to become more efficient. Efficiency was measured using hospitals’ average length of stay (LOS) for...
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This paper reviews the recent literature on game-theoretic models of market structure and their empirical implementation.
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This paper traces the time series (?Growth of Firms?) tradition in the study of market structure and looks at how recent studies on entry and the size distribution of firms have modified thinking in this area.
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