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This paper puts forward a multi-level model, based on system dynamics methodology, to understand the impact of cyber crime on the financial sector. Consistent with recent findings, our results show that strong dynamic relationships, amongst tangible and intangible factors, affect cyber crime...
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Purpose – Although cloud computing has been heralded as driving the innovation agenda, there is growing evidence that cloud computing is actually a “slow train coming”. The purpose of this paper is to seek to understand the factors that drive and inhibit the adoption of cloud computing,...
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This paper uses a difference-in-difference style estimation strategy to test separately the impact of competition from … reforms forced public sector health care providers to compete with other public hospitals and eventually to face competition … efficiency. Our results suggest that competition between public providers prompted public hospitals to improve their productivity …
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We review the recent literature on market structure, firm strategies and public policy in network industries. In particular, we focus on the latest applied work, including case studies and empirical work as well as refinements of the established theoretical results. We group each set of results...
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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 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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competition in the English NHS in January 2006 has prompted hospitals to become more efficient. Efficiency was measured using … results illustrate that hospitals exposed to competition after a wave of market-based reforms took steps to shorten the time … results suggest that hospital competition within markets with fixed prices can increase hospital efficiency. …
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This paper reviews the recent literature on game-theoretic models of market structure and their empirical implementation.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126329