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A large body of economic literature has established that the primary purpose of business is profit maximization assuming unitary and constant elasticity of substitution of production factors. However, the prevailing operating conditions of micro and small enterprises raise concerns about the...
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and transmission congestion rents. Our main results indicate that the most profitable types of generation technology are …
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Si bien antes de los años 1990 ya había participación de grandes empresas minoristas en México, la llegada de empresas transnacionales, como Wal-Mart, generó una reconfiguración en la distribución de alimentos y, con ello, una expectativa del impacto directo sobre algunas variables...
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The objective of the research is to identify the variables that affect short-term financial decisions, determinants of cash flow in MSMEs. A mixed investigation is carried out, based on a survey applied to 278 managers of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in Colombia. The data were...
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This paper analyzes the adjustment strategies used by some Mexican firms to face supply and demand shocks. The information is provided by a survey carried out in 2012 by Banco de M'exico among 1,138 firms from different sectors. The results show that the response of firms to both types of shocks...
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This paper makes an economic and financial analysis of car dealerships in Spain, using data from SABI database. Moreover, it analyses the economic and financial characteristics of firms that determinate that, in the same crisis context, some firms manage to have positive profit, while other ones...
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Business decision making is a critical factor to the viability of companies. In the current more dynamic, global and competitive scenario, this critical factor opens space to wider requirements. Modeling and simulation have traditionally formed a substantial part of the toolkit used to support...
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We study cartel stability in a differentiated price-setting duopoly with returns to scale. We show that a cartel may be equally stable in the presence of lower differentiation, provided that the decreasing returns parameter is high. In addition we demonstrate that for a given factor of discount,...
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We study cartel stability in a differentiated price-setting duopoly with returns to scale. We show that a cartel may be equally stable in the presence of lower differentiation, provided that the decreasing returns parameter is high. In addition we demonstrate that for a given factor of discount,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009304470