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that when calculating the value of these indices, the National Bank of Serbia most often uses the absolute value of assets …
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In this paper, we analyze the effects of trade, concentration and ownership on the pricing behavior of firms in two transition countries, Bulgaria and Romania. We use an extensive dataset of more than 3000 firms and sector level infirmation to estimate the effects of these three factors on the...
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Competition among health insurers is widely considered to be a means of enhancing efficiency and containing costs in … is able to counterbalance the strong position of physicians and to achieve lower costs. … Leistungserbringer auf dem Gesundheitsmarkt über Marktmacht verfügen. Ärzte besitzen einen monopolistischen Vorteil, der mit Chamberlins …
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converges in both the second and third central moment. Using a comprehensive sample of Austrian firms, the estimation results …
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The paper uses the Johansen cointegration approach to analyse long-run pricing strategies of pork and chicken retailers in Austria. Long-run retail pricing strategy is found to be dependent on market share and price elasticity of demand for product. A combination of mark-up pricing strategy for...
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used to derive competitive marginal cost estimators which are compared with observed electricity prices. Marginal costs are … power exchange and dynamic effects like start-up costs and hydro storage plant dispatch are incorporated. The comparison of … marginal costs and prices reveals significant market power in the German electricity market, mainly exhibited during peak …
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, covering the period 1978 to 2001. In the framework of the markup estimation method suggested by Roeger (1995), we test for both …
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We test how bank market power influences technical change and resource allocation of informationally opaque firms. We … identify the effect of bank market power using the dependence on external finance per industry and the regional demarcation of … generate useful private information. Bank market power spurs both technical change and reallocation of resources, but it …
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In this paper we analyse household income mobility dynamics among Africans in South Africa?s most populous province, Kwazulu-Natal, between 1993 and 1998. Compared to industrialized and most developing countries, mobility has been quite high, as might have been expected after the transition in...
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bank profitability. We evaluate a broad field of research by introducing a general framework for a profit maximizing bank …
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