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adopting institutional arrangements intended to promote competition among care providers. I selectively survey and supplement … the literature to show that an increase in competition—modeled either as a larger number of care providers or greater …
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We present a dynamical model of web site growth in order to explore the effects of competition among web sites and to … determine how they affect the nature of markets. We show that under general conditions, as the competition between sites …
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The supply chain contracting literature has focused on incentive contracts designed to align supply chain members’ individual interests. A key finding of this literature is that members’ preferences for contractual forms are often at odds: the upstream supplier prefers relatively complex...
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addition, there is competition for the raw material whose supplies are limited, and where prices reflect these limitations … when there is competition for the market and raw materials. …
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at the retail level relative to what a standard model of price competition would predict. In this paper, we investigate …
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Using a novel dataset that allows us to trace the bank relationships of a sample of mostly unlisted firms, we explore which borrowers are able to benefit from foreign bank presence in emerging markets. Our results suggest that the limits to financial integration are less tight than the static...
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We investigate how increased competition affects firm owners׳ incentives and managers׳ efforts in a laboratory … respect to managerial effort: we observe that when competition reduces the firm׳s profit, the owner reacts by offering lower …
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This paper analyzes the intensity of competition among commercial banks in Honduras during the period 2003 … considerably competitive, although some results seem to support the thesis that there is oligopolistic competition while others … place the market close to perfect competition. We also find some evidence that indicates that the intensity of competition …
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transactions and vice versa. This paper estimates the effect of competition and service quality on mobile money demand. In this … interaction of quality and competition in service settings, while developing a foundation for the exploration of mobile money by …
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automobile sector is facing stiff competition due to availability of local & foreign brands and increasing pre-sales and post …
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