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Capacity Investment Under Demand Uncertainty - An Empirical Study of the US Cement Industry, 1994-2006
Ponssard, Jean-Pierre - 2010
implications of the theory literature on this topic in an empirical study of the US cement industry between 1994 and 2006. Firms in … these markets via both domestic production and imports. Consistent with the theory, we find a negative relationship between …
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Emotions in Litigation Contests
Baumann, Florian - 2011
This paper introduces the concept of emotions into the standard litigation contest. Positive (negative) emotions emerge when litigants win (lose) at trial and are dependent in particular on the level of defendant fault. Our findings establish that standard results of litigation contests change...
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A Simple Model of Health Insurance Competition
Kemnitz, Alexander - 2010
This paper investigates competition between health insurance companies under different financing regulations. We … consider two alternatives advanced in recent German health care reform discussions: competition by contribution rates (health … contributions) and by fees (health premia). We find that contribution rate competition yields lower company profits and higher …
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Competition between Content Distributors in Two-Sided Markets
Bergh, Harald - 2012
We analyze strategic interactions between two competing distributors of an independent TV channel. Consistent with most of the relevant markets, we assume that the distributors set end-user prices while the TV channel sets advertising prices. Within this framework we show that the distributors...
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Bank Competition and Financial Stability : A General Equilibrium Exposition
De Nicolo, Gianni - 2013
failures. In this model, there is no trade-off between bank competition and financial stability …
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Intra-Group Heterogeneity in Collective Contests
Nitzan, Shmuel - 2013
Collective contests are examined permitting heterogeneity of stakes within every competing group. Our first concern is whether unequal distribution of stakes in a group can enhance its win probability. Our second concern is whether a large stake in a group can be individually disadvantageous. We...
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Hospital Competition with Soft Budgets
Brekke, Kurt Richard - 2013
We study the incentives for hospitals to provide quality and expend cost-reducing effort when their budgets are soft, i.e., the payer may cover deficits or confiscate surpluses. The basic set up is a Hotelling model with two hospitals that differ in location and face demand uncertainty, where...
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Measuring Strategic Firm Interaction in Product-Quality Choices : The Case of Airline Flight Frequency
Brueckner, Jan K. - 2013
multimarket contact generates mutual forbearance in frequency competition, finding no evidence for such an effect …
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Does Competition Justify Inequality?
Bartling, Björn - 2016
Are competitive mechanisms perceived as just sources of economic inequality? Perceptions of fairness violations can have severe economic consequences, as they may cause counterproductive behavior such as rule book slowdowns or quality shading. To analyze fairness perceptions associated with...
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Hospital Competition and Quality with Regulated Prices
Brekke, Kurt Richard - 2010
We analyse the effect of competition on quality in hospital markets with regulated prices, considering both the effect … of (i) introducing competition (monopoly versus competition) and (ii) increasing competition through lower transportation … structure, we show that the relationship between competition and quality is generally ambiguous. In contrast to the received …
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