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Railroad redux
Fettig, David - In: The Region (2001) Dec, pp. 4-9
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Inter-regional coal mine competition in the US : evidence from rail restrictions
Kacker, Kanishka; Lange, Ian - In: Energy economics 110 (2022), pp. 1-30
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Dupuit and Walras on The Natural Monopoly in Transport Industries: What They Really Wrote and Meant
Numa, Guy - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2012
In this article, I analyze and compare the contributions of Dupuit and Walras on the natural monopoly of railroads …. Both theorists argued that inland waterways—as opposed to railroads—could be vertically unbundled, a point which previous … and Walras both concluded that railroads were better managed under the monopoly regime; however they drew upon different …
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Micro Gains From Micro Reform
Quiggin, John - 1998
Large estimates of the benefits of microeconomic reform have been put forward in official studies. By contrast, Quiggin (1997) concludes that benefits of microeconomic reforms have been modest. A key area of disagreement relates to the claim that increased competition leads to increases in...
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Efficiency and competition in the Dutch non-life insurance industry : effects of the 2006 health care reform
Bikker, Jacob A.; Popescu, Adelina - 2014
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Market forces in healthcare insurance: the impact of healthcare reform on regulated competition revisited
Bikker, Jacob A.; Bekooij, Jack - 2021
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Market forces in healthcare insurance : the impact of healthcare reform on regulated competition revisited
Bikker, Jacob A.; Bekooij, Jack G. J. - 2021
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Competition and scale economy effects of the Dutch 2006 health-care insurance reform
Bikker, Jacob A. - In: The Geneva papers on risk and insurance - issues and … 42 (2017) 1, pp. 53-78
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Firm Growth and Failure in Increasingly Competitive Markets Theory and Application to Hospital Markets
Mobley, Lee Rivers; Frech, H. E. - In: International Journal of the Economics of Business 1 (1994) 1, pp. 77-93
Recent models of firm failure and growth have ignored demand factors. In this paper, we generalize these theoretical analyses to include demand factors in explaining failure and growth for heterogeneous firms in local markets facing imperfect but increasing competition. The model is then applied...
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X-efficiency, Scale Economies, Technological Progress and Competition: A Case of Banking Sector in Pakistan
Qayyum, Abdul; Khan, Sajawal - Pakistan Institute of Development Economics - 2007
This study aims at empirical investigation of the x-efficiency, scale economies, and technological progress of commercial banks operating in Pakistan using balance panel data for 29 banks. As banking sector efficiency is considered as a precondition for macroeconomic stability, monetary policy...
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