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We study the exit of hospitals from the market for inpatient services. More generous hospital reimbursement … significantly reduces the probability of exit throughout the 1990s. Conditional on reimbursement levels, hospital efficiency was not … more likely to exit. Throughout the period, high-tech services increased the probability of survival, and for …
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This paper examines competition in the liberalized natural gas market. Each .firm has zero marginal cost core capacity, due to long term contracts with take or pay obligations, and additional capacity at higher marginal costs. The market is decentralized and the firms decide which customers to...
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The article examines a differentiated-products duopoly model where the firms make entry decisions to two markets and … then choose prices. The effects of product differentiation and entry costs are analyzed in two games: with and without … price discrimination between the markets. Allowing price discrimination encourages more entry and tends to reduce prices and …
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formal may also have important effects on GDP growth. This chapter presents some stylized facts about firms' entry and exit … and business environment in Tunisia. Data used to analyze patterns of entry and exit in Tunisian manufacturing industries … and their impact on firm’s performance are presented in Sect. 4.2. The determinants of entry and exit process are …
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. We model the decision of adoption, learning entry and exit of firms. These decisions depend on the interaction of …
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of innovations introduced by entrepreneurs. Using internationally comparable data on European countries, entry and exit …
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It is usually believed that higher competition, implying more active firms, benefits consumers. We show that this may not be the case in an industry with asymmetric cost firms. A rise in the number of more cost inefficient firms makes the consumers worse-off in the presence of a welfare...
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Entry of new firms can be difficult or even impossible at capacity constrained facilities, despite the actual cost of … results propose a new explanation of the mixed empirical findings on incumbent pricing to entry and suggest that competition …
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This paper examines some of the recent literature on the identi�cation of production functions. We focus on structural techniques suggested in two recent papers, Olley and Pakes (1996), and Levinsohn and Petrin (2003). While there are some solid and intuitive indenti�cation ideas in these...
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The development of the market of a product needs a wide knowledge of consumption and marketing practices relevant. This paper issue is to analyze the cashew nuts commercialization system in Bantè and Savalou regions in order to identify strengths and weaknesses relevant to the cashew nuts chain...
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