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Oligopolistic competition in price and quality
Dubovik, Andrei; Janssen, Maarten C. W. - 2008
We consider an oligopolistic market where firms compete in price and quality and where consumers are heterogeneous in knowledge: some consumers know both the prices and quality of the products offered, some know only the prices and some know neither. We show that two types of signalling...
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Does price competition damage healthcare quality?
Roos, Anne-Fleur; Van Doorslaer, Eddy; O'Donnell, Owen; … - 2018
One of the reasons why regulators are hesitant about permitting price competition in healthcare markets is that it may damage quality when information is poor. Evidence on whether this fear is well-founded is scarce. We provide evidence using a reform that permitted Dutch health insurers and...
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From tradition to modernity : economic growth in a small world
Lindner, Ines; Strulik, Holger - 2012
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Trade policy of transition economics
Moraga-González, José Luis; Viaene, Jean-Marie - 2000
This paper focuses on ignored issues regarding the impact of trade reforms in transition economies. These economies are primarily characterized by a low quality of their products, large depreciations of their currencies, and a high degree of government intervention in economic activity. These...
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Dumping in a global world
Moraga-González, José Luis; Viaene, Jean-Marie - 2004
Anti-dumping actions are now the trade policy of choice of developing and transition economies. To understand why these economies have increasingly applied anti-dumping laws, we build a simple theoretical model of vertical intra-industry trade and investigate the strategic incentives of...
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Dumping in developing and transition economies
Moraga-González, José Luis; Viaene, Jean-Marie - 2004
We build a simple theoretical model to understand why developing and transition economieshave increasingly applied anti-dumping laws. To that end, we investigate the strategic incentivesof oligopolistic exporting firms to undertake dumping in these economies. We show that dumpingmay be due to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011342572
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Anti-dumping, intra-industry trade and quality reversals
Moraga-González, José Luis; Viaene, Jean-Marie - 2004
We examine an export game where two firms (home and foreign), located in two differentcountries, produce vertically differentiated products. The foreign firm is the most efficientin terms of R&D costs of quality development and the foreign country is relatively larger andendowed with a...
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Stress reactions cannot explain the gender gap in willingness to compete
Buser, Thomas; Dreber, Anna; Mollerstrom, Johanna - 2015
explain the gender gap in competitiveness. Experiment 1 studies whether stress responses (measured with salivary cortisol and … cold-pressor task. We find no causal effect of stress on competitiveness for the sample as a whole and only tentative …
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The impact of female sex hormones on competitiveness
Buser, Thomas - 2009
contraceptives to determine the importance of sex hormones in explaining gender differences in competitiveness. Participants in a … of progesterone on competitiveness and our results therefore provide a partial biological explanation for gender … differences in competitiveness. We consider three possible indirect pathways through which sex hormones could affect …
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Assessment of tourist competitiveness by analysing destination efficiency
Cracolici, Francesca; Rietveld, Piet; Nijkamp, Peter - 2006
Recently the notion and the measurement of destination competitiveness have received increasing attention in the … subject of this paper - inspired by the conceptual competitiveness model developed earlier by Crouch and Ritchie - concerns … tourist site competitiveness in terms of its technical efficiency using parametric and non-parametric methods, a stochastic …
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