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Pricing Strategy and Financial Policy
Dasgupta, Sudipto - 1996
Recent empirical evidence indicates that capital structure changes affect pricing strategies. In most cases, prices increase following the implementation of a leveraged buyout of a major firm in an industry, with the more levered firm charging higher prices on average. Notable exceptions exist...
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Strategic Trade Policy When Domestic Firms Compete Against Vertically Integrated Rivals
Rodrik, Dani - 1989
This paper models the international competition between a domestic firm and its vertically integrated foreign rival …
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Who Should Pay for Credit Ratings and How?
Kashyap, Anil K. - 2013
We analyze a model where investors use a credit rating to decide whether to finance a firm. The rating quality depends on unobservable effort exerted by a credit rating agency (CRA). We study optimal compensation schemes for the CRA when a planner, the firm, or investors order the rating. Rating...
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Trade policy issues and empirical analysis : [papers from a conference held by the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Mass., Feb. 13 - 14, 1987]
Baldwin, Robert E. (ed.) - 1988 - 1. [print.]
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Platform as a Rule Maker : Evidence from Airbnb's Cancellation Policies
Jia, Jian; Jin, Ginger Zhe; Wagman, Liad - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
-guest rules can drive demand and supply to and from the platform, as a function of the local platform competition between Airbnb … and VRBO. Our results suggest that platform competition sometimes dampens a platform wide pro-guest rule and sometimes … reinforces it, often with heterogeneous effects on different hosts. This implies that platform competition does not necessarily …
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Understanding Bank Runs : The Importance of Depositor-Bank Relationships and Networks
Iyer, Rajkamal - 2008
We use a unique, new, database to examine micro depositor level data for a bank that faced a run. We use minute-by-minute depositor withdrawal data to understand the effectiveness of deposit insurance, the role of social networks, and the importance of bank-depositor relationships in influencing...
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Strategic Incompatibility in ATM Markets
Knittel, Christopher R. - 2006
We test whether firms use incompatibility strategically, using data from ATM markets. High ATM fees degrade the value of competitors' deposit accounts, and can in principle serve as a mechanism for siphoning depositors away from competitors or for creating deposit account differentiation. Our...
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The Inner Workings of the Patient Centered Medical Home Model
David, Guy - 2016
The patient-centered medical home (PCMH) is a model for restructuring primary care with a focus on improved access to care and clinical excellence. However, to date, the evidence on its effect on healthcare utilization and expenditures has been quite mixed. One possible reason for this may lie...
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Can Intangible Capital Explain Cyclical Movements in the Labor Wedge?
Gourio, Francois - 2014
Intangible capital is an important factor of production in modern economies that is generally neglected in business cycle analyses. We demonstrate that intangible capital can have a substantial impact on business cycle dynamics, especially if the intangible is complementary with production...
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