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Cournot Competition Between Teams : an Experimental Study

Raab, Philippe; Schipper, Burkhard - 2007

In the economic literature on market competition, firms are often modelled as individual decision makers and the internal organization of the firm is neglected (unitary player assumption). However, as the literature on strategic delegation suggests, one can not generally expect that the behavior...

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Multisided Platforms, Dynamic Competition, and the Assessment of Market Power for Internet-Based Firms

Evans, David S. - 2016

Market power on each side of a multisided platform, whether in the form of increasing prices or decreasing quality, is constrained by the risk of losing sales on the other sides. That tends to weaken market power on each side and encourages platforms to keep prices lower and quality higher than...

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Market structure and strategic bi-sourcing

Beladi, Hamid; Mukherjee, Arijit - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 82 (2012) 1, pp. 210-219

We provide a new rationale for bi-sourcing, which refers to the situation where a final goods producer buys an input from an outside supplier and also produces it in-house. We also show the effects of the product market competition and the implications of different and common outside input...

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Attention Rivalry Among Online Platforms

Evans, David S. - 2013

Many online businesses, including most of the largest platforms, seek and provide attention. These online attention rivals provide products and features to obtain the attention of consumers and sell some of that attention, through other products and services, to merchants, developers and others...

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The New Economic Credentialing : Protecting Hospitals from Competition By Medical Staff Members

Weeks, Elizabeth - 2015

This Article addresses hospitals' use of economic criteria to determine a physician's qualifications for staff privileges. Hospitals are resorting to economic conflict-of-interest credentialing policies in an attempt to ensure physicians' loyalty and mantain their own economic viability....

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Relative Performance Provisions and Competitive Incentives

Schmalz, Martin C. - 2018

After decades of theoretical inquiry, a burgeoning empirical literature now debates how ownership patterns, governance choices, and executive compensation structure affect firms' competitive behavior. An often-made assumption in the debate is that relative performance evaluation (RPE) of top...

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Competition in a Pure World of Internet Telephony

Engel, Christoph - 2007

From the angle of competition policy, Voice over IP looks like a panacea. It not only brings better service, but it also increases competitive pressure on former telecommunications monopolists. This paper points to the largely overlooked downside. In a pure world of Internet telephony, there...

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Product Market Competition and the Financing of New Ventures

de Bettignies, Jean-Etienne - 2017

This paper examines the interaction between venture risk, product market competition and entrepreneurs' choice between bank financing and venture capital (VC) financing. Under bank financing, a debt-type contract emerges as optimal, which allows the entrepreneur to retain full control of the...

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Quality Competition with Profit Constraints : Do Non-Profit Firms Provide Higher Quality than For-Profit Firms?

Brekke, Kurt R.; Siciliani, Luigi; Straume, Odd Rune - 2015

In many markets, such as education, health care and public utilities, firms are often profit-constrained either due to regulation or because they have non-profit status. At the same time such firms might have altruistic concerns towards consumers. In this paper we study semi-altruistic firms’...

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Competition in Hospital Services – The Policy Dimension

Maier-Rigaud, Frank P. - 2012

OECD countries, Governments have used their control over supply - either through financing or the delivery of health care … undertaken reforms seeking to restructure supply and financing arrangements to encourage competition - even in health systems … contribute to effective competition on prices and quality of health and hospital services? • What are the relevant supply side …

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