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likely characterize deposit pricing.The ability to distinguish differentiation from collusion is a new contribution …The study analyses the effects on banking competition of the changes in banking delivery and information collection … technologies and of the rivalry from outside the traditional banking sector.Key implications for monetary, regulatory and …
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We show how price leadership bans, imposed as part of the European Commission's State aid control on all main mortgage providers except the largest bank, shifted the Dutch mortgage market from a competitive to a collusive price leadership equilibrium. In May 2009, mortgage rates in the...
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insight holds across any industry, we study this question with an application to the banking sector, in light of the recent …
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The case describes the dramatic journey of a movie theater "Konark Cinema" from an oligopolistic to monopolistic competition, with an enormous opportunity to skim the market today. The primary concern for the owner and management is to revive the business in order to recover the huge losses, and...
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This investigation into small-to-medium sized wine businesses empirically tests linkages among differentiation … strategies and financial performance over time. Using a two-by-two model, we examine the impact of differentiation strategies on … to cluster the sample firms into a two-by-two differentiation strategy model. Those wineries sourcing over 50% estate …
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We study optimal subsidies for renewable energy (RE) generation to internalize external benefits from intertemporal learning-by-doing spillovers, taking into account increasing marginal costs at the industry level due to limited availability of sites suitable for RE. We find that the optimal RE...
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differentiation theoretical point of view, the paper argues that the major impetus for democratization is rather given by "functional … examine the relationship between modernization and democratization from a differentiation theoretical point of view. The focus … presented differentiation theoretical approach and previous – usually class theoretical – concepts of democratization research …
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that allows for successful differentiation and sustainable competitive advantage. The goal of this paper is to offer a …
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sense-making. A highly problematic consequence of ANT’s actualism is that it cannot explain the differentiation of economic … understanding of societal differentiation processes as based on the co-production of virtual attractors and actual assemblages. …
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-quality CP. This subsequently increases the degree of content differentiation, softening competition between the CPs. Imposing a …
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