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Predatory Foreclosure
West, Jeremy K. - 2008
This document (of 279 pages) comprises the proceedings of a roundtable on predatory foreclosure held by the OECD's Competition Committee at the OECD in October 2004. The roundtable addressed various strategies that dominant firms use to eliminate or deter competition, focusing on predatory...
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Mergers and the Value of Antitrust Deterrence
Eckbo, B. Espen - 2008
. The effective deterrence hypothesis implies that the probability of a horizontal merger being anticompetitive is higher in …
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Competition for exclusive customers: comparing equilibrium and welfare under one-part and two-part pricing
Reitzes, James D.; Woroch, Glenn A. - In: Canadian Journal of Economics 41 (2008) 3, pp. 1046-1086
This paper compares one-part and two-part pricing in a discrete-continuous choice model, providing more extensive welfare results than prior literature. Under two-part pricing, firms may set fixed fees with or without `unit-price commitment,' where the lack of unit-price commitment is consistent...
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Exploring Effectiveness and Efficiency of Banks in Switzerland
Jaouadi, Said; Zorgui, Ilhem - In: International Journal of Academic Research in Business … 4 (2014) 4, pp. 313-325
The paper attempted to investigate the effectiveness and the efficiency of the Swiss banking sector, through the … elaboration of solid econometric approaches focusing on solid scientific methodologies: effectiveness and efficiency. The two … favour of the Swiss banks. In fact, the present paper underlines that banks in Switzerland are acting with efficiency and …
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Trade-offs between justices, economics, and efficiency
Baumgaertner, Stefan; Glotzbach, Stefanie; Hoberg, Nikolai - 2011
) efficiency in the use of instruments of justice implies that there is rivalry between the two justices and the opportunity cost …
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L'acceptabilité des changements tarifaires dans le secteur des transports : comment concilier efficacité et équité ?
Raux, Charles; Souche, Stéphanie - In: Revue d'économie régionale et urbaine octobre (2001) 4, pp. 539-558
is built on the confrontation of the economic efficiency, territorial equity, horizontal equity, and vertical equity …. The analysis shows that these efficiency and equity dimensions combine themselves, by most often reinforcing the ones the …
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Efficient and fair allocation of aid.
Guillaumont, Patrick; Nguyen-Van, Phu; Pham, Thi Kim Cuong - Bureau d'Économie Théorique et Appliquée (BETA), … - 2015
This paper proposes a model of aid allocating which aims to equalize the opportunity between recipient countries to reduce the poverty, in particular the millennium development goal of reducing the poverty by half. The model also takes into account the natural deficit which is defined by the gap...
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The Performance of Road Transport Infrastructure and its Links to Policies
Braconier, Henrik; Pisu, Mauro; Bloch, Debra - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
sector’s efficiency. This paper develops a conceptual framework for analysing the social efficiency of the road transport … framework is then used to analyse efficiency in 32 OECD countries. Data issues in terms of availability, quality and … evidence that social efficiency is low in a number of OECD countries. The low efficiency suggests that substantial room for …
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Options for Benchmarking Infrastructure Performance
Pisu, Mauro; Hoeller, Peter; Joumard, Isabelle - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2012
existing infrastructure stock. A third approach aims at benchmarking the social efficiency of infrastructure service provision …
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Two-Person Fair Division of Indivisible Items: An Efficient, Envy-Free Algorithm
Brams, Steven J.; Kilgour, D. Marc; Klamler, Christian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Many procedures have been suggested for the venerable problem of dividing a set of indivisible items between two players. We propose a new algorithm (AL), related to one proposed by Brams and Taylor (BT), which requires only that the players strictly rank items from best to worst. Unlike BT, in...
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