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Asymmetric Learning in Repeated Contracting: An Empirical Study
Cohen, Alma - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 94 (2012) 2, pp. 419-432
This paper uses a unique panel data set of an insurer's transactions with repeat customers. Consistent with the asymmetric learning hypothesis that repeated contracting enables sellers to obtain an informational advantage over their rivals, I find that the insurer makes higher profits in...
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Technology Diffusion with Market Power in the Upstream Industry
Perino, Grischa Sebastian - School of Economics, University of East Anglia - 2010
This paper compares taxes and tradable permits when used to regulate a competitive and polluting downstream industry that can purchase an abatement technology from a monopolistic upstream industry. Second-best policies are derived for the full range of the abatement technology's emission...
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Value Creation and Profit Optimization
Winther, K. Tobias - EconWPA - 2002
The present paper develops a basic framework for evaluating and optimizing profits in a business operation. In developing a business we are often faced with an infinity of choices ranging from what products or services to sell and what customers to target to how to structure and manage the...
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The Impact of Credit Unions on the Rates Offered for Retail Deposits by Banks and Thrift Institutions
Hannan, Timothy H. - 2003
Because of the increasing significance of credit unions as potential competitors for consumer deposits, this paper examines the impact of the market presence of credit unions, variously measured, on the rates for three different types of consumer deposits offered by banks and thrift...
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Rationing of excessive demand on crowdinvesting-platforms
Mäschle, Oliver - Institut für Volkswirtschaftlehre, Universität Rostock - 2012
On crowdinvesting-platforms, non-publicly traded companies can offer equity to private investors. Currently, platforms like Crowdcube.com in Great Britain or Seedmatch.de in Germany are using a mechanism for the allocation of available shares best described by the phrase first come, first...
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Market Structure, Concentration and Performance: Jordanian Banking System, 1980-1993.
Al-Karasneh, I.; Cadle, P.J.; Ford, J.L. - Department of Economics, University of Birmingham - 1997
This paper evaluates the impact on the performance (profitability) of the bannking system in Jordan of aspects of market structure. It considers the Struture-conduct performance and the efficient market hypotheses. The econometric findings contrast with the prevalent view in the literature that...
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Bank Performance during the Financial Crisis 2007-2010
Mirzaei, Ali - In: International Journal of Business and Economics 12 (2013) 1, pp. 27-44
those that operated in inefficient markets. This paper analyses the impact of bank market structure and efficiency on the … market concentration has a negative impact on bank profitability and stability while controlling other factors. Efficiency … wave of regulations on bank competition. …
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Banking competition in Africa: Subregional comparative studies
Fosu, Samuel - In: Emerging Markets Review 15 (2013) C, pp. 233-254
This paper examines the extent of banking competition in African subregional markets. A dynamic version of the Panzar–Rosse model is adopted beside the static model to assess the overall extent of banking competition in each subregional banking market over the period 2002 to 2009. Consistent...
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An empirical investigation of the effects of concentration on profitability among US banks
Fiona, Tregenna - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This paper analyses the effects of concentration on profitability in the US banking sector from 1994-2005, using bank …-interest revenue, and reduce both interest and non-interest costs. Furthermore, concentration appears to depress bank deposit interest … rates and raise both lending rates and the interest rate spread. This suggests that bank concentration might have negative …
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Banking Competition in Africa: Sub-regional Comparative Studies
Fosu, Samuel - Department of Economics, Leicester University - 2013
This paper examines the extent of banking competition in African sub-regional markets. A dynamic version of the Panzar-Rosse model is adopted beside the static model to assess the overall extent of banking competition in each sub-regional banking market over the period 2002 to 2009. Consistent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010686205