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Mean and Bold?
Witte, Kristof De; Dijkgraaf, Elbert - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007
benchmarking aimed to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the sector. Secondly, merger activity arose. This paper develops …See also the article 'Mean and bold: on separating merger economies from structural efficiency gains in the drinking … a tailored nonparametric model to dissect and distinguish the effects on efficiency of these two evolutions. In …
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Financial Sector Assessment Program Update : Republic of Kazakhstan - Bank Profitability and Competition
World Bank - 2013
context of competition in the banking sector. In spite of significant gains in efficiency made in recent years, operational … costs and provisioning for loan losses remain high compared to some other economies. Profitability of the aggregate banking …
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Middlemen: A Directed Search Equilibrium Approach
Watanabe, Makoto - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012
large capacity, can lead to a higher matching efficiency, but with a lower total welfare, compared to having many middlemen …
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Illinois Walls
Schinkel, Maarten Pieter; Tuinstra, Jan; Rüggeberg, Jakob - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005
In its landmark ruling in Illinois Brick Co. v. Illinois in 1977, the U.S. Supreme Court restricted standing to sue for recovery of antitrust damages to direct purchasers. However, antitrust damages are typically (in part) passed on to intermediaries lower in the chain of production and...
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Second-degree Price Discrimination and Inter-group Effects in Airline Routes between European Cities
Alderighi, Marco; Cento, Alessandro; Nijkamp, Peter; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
This paper presents a model of second-degree price discrimination and inter-group effects to describe the full-service pricing behaviour in the passenger aviation market. Consumer heterogeneity is assumed on both a horizontal and a vertical dimension, while various distinct market structures,...
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The Home Carrier Advantage in Civil Aviation
Lijesen, Mark; Nijkamp, Peter; Pels, Eric - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005
This paper analyzes the relative economic power position of home carriers in hub-and-spoke systems. Hub-and-spoke systems may lower costs on densely traveled routes and enable economically viable operations on less densely traveled routes. The reverse side is probably that carriers enjoy...
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Pareto Efficiency in the Jungle
Houba, Harold; Luttens, Roland Iwan; Weikard, Hans-Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014
withhold goods from weaker agents. Here, gift giving by stronger agents is needed to achieve Pareto efficiency. We argue that …
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The Shadow Price of Aircraft Noise Nuisance
Praag, Bernard M.S. van; Baarsma, B.E. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2001
This paper has a twofold objective. First, we develop a new method to assess the monetary valuefor individuals of external effects. The method makes use of an ordinal index of life satisfaction asscored by individual respondents who are subjected in varying intensity to the external effect....
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Travel Time Variability and Airport Accessibility
Koster, Paul; Kroes, Eric; Verhoef, Erik T. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010
This discussion paper resulted in a publication in <I>Transportation Research Part B: Methodological</I> (2011). Vol. 45(10), pages 1545-1559.<P> This paper analyses the cost of access travel time variability for air travelers. Reliable access to airports is important since it is likely that the cost of...</p></i>
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Welfare Effects of Distortionary Company Car Taxation
Gutiérrez-i-Puigarnau, Eva; Ommeren, Jos van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007
In Europe, company cars are offered by employers as fringe benefits to their employees at a lower price than employees pay in the car market, mainly due to favourable taxation of company cars. We analyse the welfare effects of favourable taxation of company cars for the Netherlands. The...
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