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A new approach to measuring competition in the loan markets of the euro area

Leuvensteijn, Michiel van; Rixtel, Adrian van - 2007

Incluye bibliografía ; This paper is the first that applies a new measure of competition, the Boone indicator, to the banking industry. This approach is able to measure competition of bank market segments, such as the loan market, whereas many well-known measures of competition can consider the...

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Definitions of Biodiversity and Measures of Its Value

Simpson, R. David - 2002

The destruction of natural habitats has prompted concerns about the loss of biological diversity. Regrettably, however, there is no consensus among either biologists or economists on the most meaningful measures of biodiversity. Fundamentally different definitions are useful in asking...

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Adaptive economic growth

Metcalfe, JS; Foster, J; Ramlogan, R - 2006

This paper develops an evolutionary theory of adaptive growth, understood as a product of structural change and economic self-transformation, based upon processes that are closely connected with but not reducible to the growth of knowledge. The dominant connecting theme is enterprise, the...

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Network formation with closeness incentives

Buechel, Berno - 2007

We study network formation in a strategic setting where every agent strives for short paths to the other agents. The … main parameter of our model is the marginal rate of substitution between network benefits and linking costs. We provide … same network structures. …

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Essays on International Lending and Increasing Returns to Scale

Snyder, Thomas J - 2010

Standard economic theory suggests that capital should flow from rich countries to poor countries. However, capital has predominantly flowed to rich countries. The three essays in this dissertation attempt to explain this phenomenon. The first two essays suggest theoretical explanations for why...

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The Importance of Price in Re-Negotiating Long-Term Supply Contracts from Softwood Plantations – The Case of Queensland Australia

Quayle, Michael J. - 2004

the market. This paper seeks to address the theoretical ramifications of high market concentration and its impact on log …

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PROBLEMAS EN AGRONEGOCIOS

Brown, Bill; Allen, Tom - 2011

degree of market concentration in all of the industry's other sectors.Even primary agricultural production is shifting …

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MARKET POWER AND EFFICIENCY IN A COMPUTATIONAL ELECTRICITY MARKET WITH DISCRIMINATORY DOUBLE-AUCTION PRICING

Tesfatsion, Leigh; Petrov, Valentin; Nicolaisen, James - 2000

operating in the short run under systematically varied concentration and capacity conditions. The pricing of electricity is …

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THE AGE OF CONTRACT AGRICULTURE: CONSEQUENCES OF CONCENTRATION IN INPUT SUPPLY

Harl, Neil E. - 2000

Dramatic increases in concentration in the seed business, coupled with aggressive efforts to vertically integrate the …

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Business concentration in the Hungarian food retail market

Juhasz, Aniko; Seres, Antal; Stauder, Marta - 2008

is one of the first attempts at a comprehensive analysis, and employsconcentration tables and concentration ratios. It is … process. Our researchrevealed that, by 2004, concentration in the retail food market was at a high level, considerably higher … berequired due to consumer, employment, and social considerations. The trend toward concentration requiresa shift in approach and …

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