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When physicians own complementary medical service facilities such as clinical laboratories and imaging centers, they gain financially by referring patients to these service entities. This situation creates an incentive for the physician to exploit the consumers' trust by recommending more...
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This paper investigates whether the diversity of activities conducted by financial institutionsinfluences their market valuations. We find that there is a diversification discount: The marketvalues financial conglomerates that engage in multiple activities, e.g., lending and non-lendingfinancial...
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We assess size and scope-related economies in the global advertising and marketing services business. A translog cost function is employed wherein a firm's costs vary according to its scale and two dimensions of the scope of its operations. Parameters of the model are estimated via three stage...
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A growing literature seeks to understand how the characteristics of firms shape the manner in which they serve foreign markets. We consider an environment in which multiproduct firms can sell their products in multiple countries from multiple locations. We show that there are strong empirical...
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As it becomes cheaper to copy and share digital content, vendors are turning to technical protections such as encryption. We argue that if protection is nevertheless imperfect, this transition will generally lower the prices of content relative to perfect legal enforcement. However, the effect...
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In this paper, we examine a supply chain in which a single supplier sells to a downstream newsvendor-type retailer. We … the sequence of events is as follows. In a period, t, the supplier offers a contract to the retailer, and the retailer … excess inventory (we assume a lost sales model) to the next period. In period t 1, the supplier designs a new contract based …
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During the past two decades, there has been a dramatic change in IPO activity around the world. Though vibrant IPO activity, attributed to better institutions and governance, used to be a strength of the U.S., it no longer is. IPO activity in the U.S. has fallen compared to the rest of the world...
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We present a model of endogenous firm growth with R&D investment and stochastic innovation as the engines of growth …) firm growth independent of firm size, as stated in the so-called Gibrat's law, and (iii) R&D investment proportional to …
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incomes in the east have now reached the western level, and investment per capita has been much higher than in the west …. However, every third deutschmark spent in the east has been coming from the west, investment in equipment has fallen below the … west Germany. Excessively high wages coupled with investment incentives that made the cost of capital negative rank high …
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future oil price volatility derived from the NYMEX futures options market. Using a dynamic model of firms' investment problem …
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