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earned as if operating under monopolistic competition. Overall, the results show that market concentration is not …
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This study examines the dispersion in prices for homogeneous grocery products, and studies the effect of product characteristics, demographic characteristics of consumers, and market structure on search costs and price dispersion. The findings show that price dispersion is affected by search...
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Summary Based on an extended game-theoretic innovation-race model, we derive some Schumpeterian hypotheses of the impact of technological rivalry, market power, technological opportunities and demand expectations on the timing of product and process innovations. Using innovation data at the firm...
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competition. In addition, this paper emphasizes how the emerging leaders in the industry are those innovative early entrants which …
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Abstract We use data from the two leading US platforms, Prosper and Lending Club, to explore the drivers of the growing … consumer demand for peer-to-peer (P2P) credit. Despite the online nature of new entrants, we rely on the spatial autoregressive … model because spatial effects play an important role. Our findings suggest that the initial growth of P2P lending was …
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This paper explores the link between quality, cost and concentration. Using concentration and cost data and product quality indicators for 2,244 products in over eighty industries in 1997 and 2002 in the US, a two-stage, ordered probit, random effects estimation explores the impact of...
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Credit risk evaluation techniques that aid effective decisions in credit lending are of great importance to the … financial and banking industries. Such techniques assist credit managers to minimize the risks often associated with wrong … decision making. Several techniques have been developed in the time past for credit risk evaluation and these techniques suffer …
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competition and customers in different groups. The industry has a rapid growth by improving the economic conditions and quality of …
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Reason Racer is an online, rate-based, multiplayer game designed to engage middle school students in the knowledge and skills related to scientific argumentation. Several game features are included as design considerations unrelated to science content or argumentation. One specific feature, a...
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The main aim of this article was to investigate the educational potential of a game-based math game competition to ….34) participated in a math game competition relying on intra-classroom cooperation and inter-classroom competition. During a three … mechanics. The results indicated that students benefited significantly from participating in the competition and playing …
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