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Focusing on homogeneous beliefs, we can distinguish two commonly shared ideas that, i) the competition between informed … market, i) the informativeness of prices increases with the degree of competition and, ii) the aggregate and individual …
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This paper investigates the effect of grouping students by prior achievement into different classes (or schools) in settings where students are competing for admission to programs offering only a limited number of places. We first develop a model that identifies the conditions under which the...
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. The results of our analysis are linked with a number of interesting implications for the competition authorities. First …
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Based on a database of 326 merger cases scrutinized by the European Commission between 1990 and 2007, we evaluate the economic impact of the change in European merger legislation in 2004. We first propose a general framework to assess merger policy effectiveness, which is based on standard...
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We propose a general framework to assess merger policy effectiveness based on standard oligopoly theory and stock market reactions. We focus on four different dimensions of effectiveness: 1) legal certainty, 2) decision errors, 3) reversion of anti-competitive rents, and 4) deterrence. We apply...
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Based on a database of 326 merger cases scrutinized by the European Commission between 1990 and 2007, we evaluate the economic impact of the change in European merger legislation in 2004. We first propose a general framework to assess merger policy effectiveness, which is based on standard...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009408081
in it during 1990s and 2000s.The focus of the paper is in analysing the effects of the increasing competition on … performance of universities. For this purpose, I develop a theoretical model, moving from the framework of Yardstick Competition … (YC), to describe the functioning of a competition model based on comparing performances of institutions. Then, I apply …
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this paper, we take a close look at competition among the generic entrants during the first three years after patent … expiration and examine whether there is a first mover advantage. We specify a random effect nested logit model of competition … that allows for competition between the brand drug and generics, and among multiple generic drugs. The model accommodates …
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airlines, we find that when facing more LCC competition, major airlines are more likely to rely on wholly owned subsidiaries …
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We consider two agency-theory-based structural models and a reduced form model of bank inefficiency. The two structural models assume that the inefficiencies and quantities are sequentially and simultaneously determined, respectfully. The reduced form model assumes that inefficiency of a bank...
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