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price gap also falls with the number of nearby repair shops, suggesting that market competition alleviates gender …-scale field experiment conducted in the US auto repair industry to study the existence and structure of gender-based price … requests that appear to come from high-income households raise quotes for men but not women, eliminating the gender gap. The …
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A number of modeling attempts to analyze the implications of increasing competition in the electric power industry … producers, were not considered. More recently in the course of the policy debate over increasing competition, a number of models … interpret altemative scenarios or other means of increasing competition in the electric power industry in the terms of existing …
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The only way resources can be efficiently allocated in our market system is if prices of resources, goods, and services properly reflect their true value to society. However, because of (a) imperfections in the pricing mechanisms that currently influence private-sector decision making; (b) the...
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A number of modeling attempts to analyze the implications of increasing competition in the electric power industry … producers, were not considered. More recently in the course of the policy debate over increasing competition, a number of models … interpret altemative scenarios or other means of increasing competition in the electric power industry in the terms of existing …
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of steam-coal trade of several deviations from the simple competitive model. In addition to perfect competition, we …
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A computer model was developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory to analyze the electricity production, costs, and prices for two geographical regions for a single year. Bulk-power trading is allowed between the two regions and market clearing prices are determined based on marginal costs. The...
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have the lowest price possible. In the long run, competition promotes innovation and lower costs. The physical and …
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Established in 1988, the Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence recognises organisations in the USA, Mexico and Canada …
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