Purpose – There has been long‐standing interest in the duplication of audience between media vehicles, starting with work by Agostini and later developed by Goodhardt, Ehrenberg and Collins into the “duplication of viewing law”. The aim of this paper is to further extend duplication...

The paper uses annual and pooled data on Australian banks for the years 1994 to 1996 to test the two competing hypotheses of market structure and performance; namely, the structure‐conduct‐performance hypothesis (in concentrated markets firms derive higher profits due to collusion) and the...

Purpose This paper aims to provide evidence that market efficiency varies greatly across individual stock, and across market exchanges. Design/methodology/approach Three approaches, partial adjustment model, Dimson beta model and variance ratio test, are used on a large sample of US stocks....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop and test a conceptual model of bank performance. Design/methodology/approach – The papers build a system of causal relationships between market structure, strategic choice and bank performance using the path analysis method. The sample...

The forecast revision process is shaped by the environment in terms of the nature of the revision activity and in terms of its perceived effectiveness. A study on forecast revision focuses on the variables that describe the market situation for a product and so shape the context within which...

In a market where consumers choose between payment options and firms compete with products and prices, we show that payment data drives the formation of a market monopoly. A data-sharing policy can successfully restore and maintain a competitive market, but often at the expense of both...