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Cartels, Managerial Incentives, and Productive Efficiency in German Coal Mining, 1881-1913
Burhop, Carsten; Luebbers, Thorsten - 2008
In this paper, we evaluate the impact of cartelisation and managerial incentives on the productive efficiency of German coal mining corporations. We focus on coal mining in the Ruhr district, Germany's main mining area. We use stochastic frontier analysis and an unbalanced dynamic panel data set...
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Cartels, managerial incentives, and productive efficiency in German coal mining, 1881-1913
Burhop, Carsten (contributor);  … - 2008
; Germany pre-1913 ; Cartel ; Productive efficiency ; Corporate Governance …
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Is Cartelisation Profitable? A Case Study of the Rhenish Westphalian Coal Syndicate, 1893-1913
Luebbers, Thorsten - 2017
We examine the effect of one of the presumably most powerful cartels ever on the profitability of its members. More … precisely, we consider the Rhenish-Westphalian Coal Syndicate, a coal cartel that operated in Imperial Germany in the late 19th … event study methodology to asses the reaction of the stock market to the foundation of the cartel and two major revisions of …
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Endogenous price commitment, sticky and leadership pricing : evidence from the Italian petrol market
Andreoli Versbach, Patrick; Franck, Jens-Uwe - 2013
This article studies dynamic pricing strategies in the Italian gasoline market before and after the market leader unilaterally announced its commitment to adopt a sticky-pricing policy. Using daily Italian firm level prices and weekly average EU prices, we show that the effect of the new policy...
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Actions Speak Louder than Words : econometric evidence to target tacit collusion in oligopolistic markets
Andreoli Versbach, Patrick; Franck, Jens-Uwe - 2013
Tacit collusion reduces welfare comparably to explicit collusion but remains mostly unaddressed by antitrust enforcement which greatly depends on evidence of explicit communication. We propose to target specific elements of firms' behavior that facilitate tacit collusion by providing...
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Cartels, managerial incentives, and productive efficiency in German coal mining, 1881 - 1913
Burhop, Carsten; Lübbers, Thorsten - In: The journal of economic history 69 (2009) 2, pp. 500-527
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Investitionssicherung eines Syndikatshändlers : die Steenkolen-Handelsvereeniging und die Gründung der Gewerkschaft Sophia-Jacoba
Roelevink, Eva-Maria - In: Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte (2012) 2, pp. 177-214
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Cartelization and firm performance in Upper Silesia 1880-1913
Beyer, Christian - In: European review of economic history : EREH 26 (2022) 1, pp. 124-153
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Kartellpolitik im Kaiserreich : das Kohlensyndikat und die Absatzorganisation im Ruhrbergbau 1893-1919
Böse, Christian - 2018
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Coal demand, market forces, and US coal mine closures
Jordan, Brett; Lange, Ian; Linn, Joshua - 2018
Economic transitions have the potential to displace workers and cause social unrest. Coal mine closures in the eastern United States due to the changing electricity system and the resulting employment losses in rural areas have become salient issues for all levels of government. Previous...
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