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This paper explores the economic role credit rating agencies play in the corporate bond market. We consider three existing theories about multiple ratings: information production, rating shopping and regulatory certification. Using differences in rating composition, default prediction and credit...
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Im Allgemeinen gilt als eindeutig belegt, dass ein erhöhter Wettbewerb mit sinkenden Preisen und/oder steigender … Qualität einhergeht. Da im deutschen Gesundheitssystem Preise für Ärztebehandlungen reguliert sind, kann Wettbewerb in diesem … Bereich nur über Qualität ausgeübt werden. Um zu untersuchen ob geringer Wettbewerb, der sich im Extremfall in der …
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financing systems aimed at increasing the competition between universities by making their public funds dependent on their … increased competition between universities causes grade inflation. -- Grade inflation ; higher education funding ; university … competition …
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their general online attention patterns. This conclusion has important implications for competition and welfare in other …
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This paper studies the impact that capital market imperfections have on the natural" selection of the most efficient firms by estimating the effect of the pre-deregulation level of" leverage on the survival of trucking firms after the Carter deregulation. Highly leveraged" carriers are less...
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straightforward empirical tests from a model of patient demand, procedure quality, and differentiated product competition. Using …
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degree of competition in a market with the share of nonprofits: the availability of economic profits under for-profit status …
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autarkies" to a nationally integrated market. I demonstrate that the results of increased competition were" what industrial …
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into schools when peer effects are present. The model predicts that competition will lead private schools to give tuition …
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This paper examines the introduction of Direct Broadcast Satellites as an alternative to cable television and the welfare gains such satellites generated for consumers. The extent to which satellites compete with cable has become an important issue in the debate over re-regulation of cable...
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