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Understanding intra-regional transport : competition in road transportation between Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe
Vilakazi, Thando; Paelo, Anthea - 2017
the structure of markets, competition, and prices and costs of road transportation between urban hubs in Malawi … and control of access to loads by large brokers continue to negatively affect competition and efficiency. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011611274
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Towards the integration of markets: Competition in road transportation of perishable goods between Malawi, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe
Vilakazi, Thando; Paelo, Anthea - 2017
processed food products. This paper relies primarily on firm-level interview data to assess competition and bottlenecks in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011654044
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Towards the integration of markets : competition in road transportation of perishable goods between Malawi, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe
Vilakazi, Thando; Paelo, Anthea - 2017
processed food products. This paper relies primarily on firm-level interview data to assess competition and bottlenecks in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011617300
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Regulations in services sectors and their impact on downstream industries : the OECD 2013 REGIMPACT indicator
Égert, Balázs; Wanner, Isabelle - 2016
regulatory barriers to competition in non-manufacturing sectors on all industries, through intermediate inputs. The paper … regulation data are integrated with the annual energy, transport and communication regulation (ETCR) indicator and what sector …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011577777
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Regulatory reform for closing Africa's competitiveness gap
Kessides, Ioannis Nicolaos - 2014
regionalization could potentially address both these challenges. Regional integration of regulation, combined with regionalization of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010358801
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Add-on pricing in retail financial markets and the fallacies of consumer education
Kosfeld, Michael; Schüwer, Ulrich - 2014
This paper explores consequences of consumer education on prices and welfare in retail financial markets when some consumers are naive about shrouded add-on prices and firms try to exploit it. Allowing for different information and pricing strategies we show that education is unlikely to push...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010337570
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Add-on pricing, naive consumers, and the hidden welfare costs of education
Kosfeld, Michael; Schüwer, Ulrich - 2011
Previous research shows that firms shroud high add-on prices in competitive markets with naive consumers leading to inefficiency. We analyze the effects of regulatory intervention via educating naive consumers on equilibrium prices and welfare. Our model allows firms to shroud, unshroud, or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282162
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Add-on pricing, naive consumers, and the hidden welfare costs of education
Kosfeld, Michael; Schüwer, Ulrich - 2011
is sufficiently well informed about consumer and firm behavior. -- bounded rationality ; competition ; regulation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009516903
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Measuring the evolution of competition and the impact of the financial reform in the Mexican banking sector, 2008-2019
Bátiz-Zuk, Enrique; Sánchez, José Luis Lara - 2021
This paper analyzes the monthly evolution of bank competition in Mexico from 2008 to 2019 using different measures …. Subsequently, we analyze whether the 2014 financial reform had an effect on some of our competition measures. We use ordinary and … supporting the idea that the reform had a positive average effect and increased banks competition intensity during a few years …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012584137
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The Southern African poultry value chain: Regional development versus national imperatives
Ncube, Phumzile; Roberts, Simon; Zengeni, Tatenda - 2017
This paper highlights the key strategies, both regional and domestic, that have led to the current structure of the poultry value chain in Southern Africa. While large firm strategies in poultry have been found to be regional in nature, and important regional developments in soybean production,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011688591