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The European Commission and its member states are wrestling with the problem of how to implement the scheduled liberalization of the postal sector while maintaining the service obligation. This book addresses some of these concerns. It is comprised of essays chosen from those presented at the...
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associated price discrimination strategy, as the post-deregulation dominant business model of the major incumbent airlines and … manufacturers' strategy have played in shaping this dominant business model in the 1990s. Fierce competition between Airbus and … Boeing and plummeting new aircraft prices in the early 2000s have fueled low-cost competition of unprecedented scope, that …
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As the deregulation of European utility markets has progressed, the dynamics of and the competitive pressure in the …
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This paper analyses the effects of disease and war on the accumulation of human and physical capital. We employ an overlapping-generations frame-work in which young adults, confronted with such hazards and motivated by old-age provision and altruism, make decisions about investments in schooling...
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contracts literature hold up to recent empirical evidence. Guided by theory, we arrange services according to the type and …
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Theory and Economic Information -- Chapter 4 Behavioral Economics -- Chapter 5 Perfect Competition and Market Imperfections …Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Demand, Technology, and the Theory of the Firm -- Chapter 3 Introductory Game … -- Chapter 6 Monopoly and Monopolistic Competition -- Chapter 7 Product Differentiation -- Chapter 8 Market Structure, Industry …
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widely known as Stackelberg competition, has had tremendous impact on the theory of the firm and economic analysis in general … groundbreaking leadership model of firm competition. In a work of great originality and richness, he described and analyzed a market …
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We address the impact of corruption in a developing economy in the context of an empirically relevant hold-up problem - when a foreign firm sinks an investment to provide infrastructure services. We focus on the structure of the economy's bureaucracy, which can be centralized or decentralized,...
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Worldwide, there is considerable interest in postal and delivery economics. Governments, particularly in the European Union, are examining closely the roles of the two systems and how best to regulate them. This volume brings together 20 essays originally presented at the 12th Conference on...
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