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On the unprofitability of buyer groups when sellers compete

Jeon, Doh-Shin; Menicucci, Domenico - In: Games and economic behavior 115 (2019), pp. 265-288

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Hospital procurement with concentrated sellers : a case study of hip prostheses

Davies, Charlotte; Lorgelly, Paula K. - 2013

Procurement within the NHS is attracting increasing research and policy interest. However, most of the emphasis has been on the buyer (the NHS), with less attention paid to the behaviour of suppliers (often pharmaceutical companies). For medical devices very little is publicly documented about...

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(Non-)insurance markets, loss size manipulation and competition : experimental evidence

Hinloopen, Jeroen; Soetevent, Adriaan R. - 2016

defined insurance and non-insurance markets based on the initial loss size, we develop theory to show that insurers with buyer … power have incentives to create insurance markets. Insurer competition will push their profits to zero but markets do not … our theory and find support. Monopolistic insurer-subjects in non-insurance markets increase loss sizes to establish …

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