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Financial Management Focus on Operational Performance of Paper Industry in Andhra Pradesh State of India : Empirical Research Findings
Reddy, G. - 2015
Andra Pradesh is one of the leading producers of paper in India -- there are 22 paper mills in the State; regrettably, the majority of the paper mills in the state are in red/(showing losses) due to the poor performance and failure to manage their finances effectively. Therefore, there is a need...
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Technological Catch-Up and Indigenous Institutional Infrastructures in Latecomer Natural Resource-Related Industries : An Exploration of the Role of EMBRAPA in Brazil's Soybean and...
Figueiredo, Paulo N. - 2014
This article reports the results of an exploratory study on the role of indigenous institutional infrastructures in the accumulation of world-leading innovative capabilities (technological catch-up) in natural resource-related industries in the context of developing/emerging economies. These...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013047169
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Industrial Restructuring and Local Union Action : The Case of Quebec's Paper Industry
Bourque, Reynald; Rioux, Claude - 2010
to secure investments in their mills. Each of the two unions has a core of active stewards who meet regularly to discuss …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014191621
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Abuse of forward contracts to semi-collude in volatile markets : conference paper
Aichele, Markus - 2013
I model the optimal semi-collusive strategy of firms using forward contracts in volatile markets. It has been shown that forward contracts can be used to stabilize a collusive agreement under deterministic (Liski and Montero, 2006) as well as under stochastic market conditions (Aichele, 2012)....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010342821
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Business strategy and firm reorganization under changing market conditions
Ghosal, Vivek - 2009
modernization investments, including ICT. The second part of the paper presents evidence on firms’ productivity paths, and the … heterogeneity in productivity among relatively similar firms. I also present selected evidence of these firms’ investments in … innovative activity in traditional industries such as pulp and paper. -- incremental innovation, ICT investments, modernization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003850304
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Mergers and rivals' mark-ups : evidence from European paper manufacturers
Marinov, Rosen - 2007
This paper investigates the effect of merger-driven market concentration on the markups of non-merging rival firms in Europe’s paper manufacturing industry. Using a representative data set of 400 independently-owned companies spanning a ten-year period, we aim to disentangle the impact of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872161
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Empirical Perspectives on Auctions
Hortaçsu, Ali; Perrigne, Isabelle - 2021
The empirical analysis of auction data has become a thriving field of research over the past thirty years. Relying on sophisticated models and advanced econometric methods, it addresses a wide range of policy questions for both public and private institutions. This chapter offers a guide to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013312814
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The Microeconomics of Cocaine Production and Trafficking in Colombia (La Microeconomía De La Producción Y Tráfico De Cocaína En Colombia)
Mejia, Daniel; Rico Valencia, Daniel Mauricio - 2011
This chapter presents a detailed analysis of the microeconomics of cocaine production and trafficking in Colombia. The chapter first presents a brief description of the evolution over time of the aggregate figures on the production of cocaine, then focusing on describing in detail each link in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014044886
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Coexistence of service- and facility-based competition : the relevance of access prices for "make-or-buy"-decisions
Bendery, Christian M.; Goetz, Georg - 2011 - This version: September 2011
intensifies competition in all regions. We show that the cost-reducing potential of investments dominates the strategic effect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011526221
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The effect of horizontal mergers, when firms compete in prices and investments
Motta, Massimo; Tarantino, Emanuele - 2017
gains, the merger lowers total investments and consumer surplus.Only if it entails suffcient effciency gains, will it be pro …-competitive. We also show there exist classes of models for which the results obtained with cost-reducing investments are equivalent … to those with quality-enhancing investments. …
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