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Voice and silence: Why groups take credit for acts of terror
Hoffman, Aaron M - In: Journal of Peace Research 47 (2010) 5, pp. 615-626
Terrorism is designed to draw attention to particular issues and causes. Yet, the incidence of credit-taking (announcing one’s responsibility for acts of terror) varies even though anonymity can undermine the clarity of the intended messages. This article offers an explanation of the...
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Do markets erode social responsibility?
Bartling, Björn; Weber, Roberto A.; Yao, Lan - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2013
seller competition and limited consumer information, and it responds to costs and prices in a manner consistent with a model …
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U.S. Airline Antitrust Policy and Empty Core Disequilibrium
Tacker, Thomas - In: Journal of Private Enterprise 25 (2009) Fall 2009, pp. 69-79
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Contingency in Education: New Conditions and New Mechanisms in Choosing Educational Trajectories
Stepantsov, Pavel; Kuzminov, Vasily - In: Educational Studies (2012) 4, pp. 83-108
Pavel Stepantsov, M.A. in Sociology (Manchester University), intern researcher at the Centre for Fundamental Sociology, National Research University - Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russian Federation. Email: pavel.stepantsov@gmail.com Address: 20 Myasnitskaya St., Moscow, 101000, Russian...
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The Competitive Conditions of the Banking Industry in the Post-Crises Period: An Analysis of Turkish Banks
VARDAR, Gülin; AYDOĞAN, Berna; SEVEN, Ünal - In: Iktisat Isletme ve Finans 29 (2014) 339, pp. 49-68
initiated in the post crises period. The results indicate that competition in the banking sector is most accurately … characterized by the theoretical model of monopolistic competition for the period under consideration. There is no evidence that the …
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A note on the effects of downstream free entry on wholesale pricing
Pinopoulos, Ioannis N. - 2014
We consider a simple model where downstream firms (retailers) carry the product of an upstream supplier (manufacturer). Under very general demand conditions, we show that, when downstream entry is endogenously dependent on profitability conditions, the optimal wholesale price charged by the...
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Industrial and Competition Policy: from Theory to Practice of Interaction
Shastitko, A. - In: Journal of the New Economic Association 22 (2014) 2, pp. 205-209
Working definitions of industrial and competition policy are provided. Based on definition variants of relations of two …
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Information Asymmetry and Foreign Currency Borrowing by Small Firms
Brown, Martin; Ongena, Steven; Yesin, Pınar Ayşe Yeşin - Schweizerische Nationalbank (SNB) - 2012
We model the choice of loan currency in a framework which features a trade-off between lower cost of debt and the risk of firm-level distress costs. Under perfect information, if foreign currency funds come at a lower interest rate, all foreign currency earners as well as those local currency...
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"Testing the Effectiveness of Regulation and Competition on Cable Television Rates"
Kelly, Mary T.; Ying, John S. - Department of Economics, Lerner College of Business and … - 2013
effect of regulation and competition on cable rates. Our calculations indicate that while regulation lowered rates for small … system operators, it raised them for medium and large systems. Meanwhile, competition consistently decreased rates from 5 ….6 to 8.8 percent, with even larger declines during periods of regulation. Our results suggest that competition is more …
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Did Microsoft Harm Consumers?
Schmalensee, Richard L.; Fisher, Franklin M.; Evans, … - American Enterprise Institute
Key economists for the government and for the Microsoft Corporation lay out their views on the key issues and then respond to the views presented by the opposing side.
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