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Capacity Choice in a Mixed Duopoly with Managerial Delegation

Tomaru, Yoshihiro; Nakamura, Yasuhiko; Saito, Masayuki - In: Economics Bulletin 29 (2009) 3, pp. 1904-1924

This paper studies capacity choice in a mixed duopoly with differentiated goods under quantity competition and price competition, taking into account the separation between ownership and management. In this paper, we show that in equilibrium, under quantity competition, both the public firm and...

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Non-Profit Differentials in Crowd-Based Financing : Evidence from 50,000 Campaigns

Pitschner, Stefan - 2015

We use data from approximately 50,000 crowdfunding projects to assess the relative funding performance of for-profit and non-profit campaigns. We find that non-profit projects are significantly more likely to reach their minimum funding goals and that they receive more money from the average...

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Collaborations and Sustainability In Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Industry : Examining The Business Communication Amongst Stakeholders In MAPs Industry

Aliu, Armando; Aliu, Dorian - 2021

overlapping of common mission, vision and objectives of industrial partners and stakeholders are quite crucial to overcome … in particular. Local stakeholders’ engagement and agricultural hybridity are likely to strengthen local villagers and …-range partnerships and cooperation with foreign partners as stakeholders and interest groups of the aggregate production and marketing …

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SYMBIOTIC COMMUNICATION PLAN FOR NGOS : PRAXIS AND CHALLENGES

Oza, Preeti - 2021

Abstract:Communication is key to the cause of philanthropy and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) need to communicate more effectively to spread their message. The major Communication challenge is that the people who passionately start the NGO are not able to effectively communicate the cause...

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Development of Open Source Software for Power Market Research: The AMES Test Bed

Li, Hongyan; Tesfatsion, Leigh S. - Department of Economics, Iowa State University - 2009

Open Source Software (OSS) expresses the idea that developers should be able to license the publication of their software in a manner permitting anyone to freely use, modify, and distribute the software. Today OSS is widely used in the software industry, such as for language development tools...

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Auction Basics for Wholesale Power Markets: Objectives and Pricing Rules

Tesfatsion, Leigh - Department of Economics, Iowa State University - 2009

Power systems have distinctive features that greatly complicate the development of auction designs. This study reviews the theory and practice of auction design as it relates specifically to U.S. restructured wholesale power markets, i.e., centrally-administered wholesale power markets with...

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Capacity Withholding in Restructured Wholesale Power Markets: An Agent-Based Test Bed Study

Li, Hongyan; Tesfatsion, Leigh S. - Department of Economics, Iowa State University - 2009

This study uses a dynamic 5-bus test case implemented via the AMES Wholesale Power Market Test Bed to investigate strategic capacity withholding by generation companies (GenCos) in restructured wholesale power markets under systematically varied demand conditions. The strategic behaviors of the...

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The AMES Wholesale Power Market Test Bed: A Computational Laboratory for Research, Teaching, and Training

Li, Hongyan; Tesfatsion, Leigh S. - Department of Economics, Iowa State University - 2009

Wholesale power markets around the world are currently undergoing a controversial restructuring of their architecture and rules of operation. Some commentators have argued that restructuring has not produced the intended improvements in market efficiency while at the same time it has complicated...

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Hospital Ownership Mix Efficiency in the US: An Exploratory Study

Santerre, Rexford; Vernon, John A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

This paper offers an empirical test of ownership mix efficiency in the U.S. hospital services industry. The test compares the benefits of quality assurance with the costs from the attenuation of property rights that result from an increased presence of nonprofit organizations. The empirical...

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Does Corporate Ownership Matter? Service Provision in the Hospital Industry

Horwitz, Jill R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

Three types of firms %uF818 nonprofit, for-profit, and government %uF818 own U.S. hospitals, yet we do not know whether ownership results in the specialization of medical service provision. This study of over 30 medical services in urban, general hospitals (1988-2000) shows that ownership types...

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