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Vertical Governance between Airlines and Airports – A Transaction Cost Analysis

Fuhr, Johannes; Beckers, Thorsten - Fachgebiet Wirtschafts- und Infrastukturpolitik (WIP), … - 2006

With airport privatization and infrastructure expansion projects taking place in the liberalized European air transport market, airport and airline companies are critically reevaluating their vertical governance structures. This paper analyzes the comparative efficiency of vertical governance...

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Corporate profitability and the dynamics of competition in emerging markets: a time series analysis

Glen, Jack; Lee, Kevin; Singh, Ajit - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2002

The paper presents time-series analyses of corporate profitability in seven leading developing countries (DCs) using the common methodology of the persistence of profitability (PP) studies and systematically compares the results with those for advanced countries (ACs). Surprisingly, both short-...

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Corporate governance, competition, the new international financial architecture and large corporations in emerging markets

Singh, Ajit; Weisse, Bruce; Singh, Alaka - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2002

This paper examines from the developing countries perspective important analytical and policy issues arising from: a) the current international discussions about corporate governance in relation to the New International Financial Architecture; b) changes in the international competitive...

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Some Second Thoughts on Monopolistic Distortions and Endogenous Growth

Arnold, Lutz; Bauer, Christian - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

The most fundamental proposition about growth and competition is that there is a tradeoff between static welfare and …

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The Choice of Prices vs. Quantities under Uncertainty

Reisinger, Markus; Ressner, Ludwig - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

If duopolistic firms can choose their strategy variable, uncertainty about demand conditions and the degree of substitutability have countervailing effects on variable choice. High uncertainty favors prices, while close substitutability favors quantities. For intermediate values, a hybrid...

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Competition, Innovation and the Effect of Knowledge Accumulation

Steinmetz, Alexander - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

accumulation the leader's R&D effort increases with the gap as she is trying to avoid competition in the future. When firms gain … causes an equilibrium where the incentives to innovate are highest when competition is most intense. …

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On the Causes of Soft Budget Constraints: Firm-Level Evidence from Bulgaria and Romania

Everaert, Greetje; Hildebrandt, Antje - LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, … - 2001

degree of competition within the sector and on the ownership of the firm. Ownership structure in Bulgaria however, has no … that competition, privatisation and firm size matter in explaining soft budget constraints, as suggested in the theoretical …

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A Retail Benchmarking Approach to Eficient Two-Way Access Pricing

Jeon, Doh-Shin; Hurkens, Sjaak - Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, … - 2007

of competition in linear prices, we show that there is a unique linear rule that implements the Ramsey outcome as the … unique equilibrium, independently of the underlying demand conditions. In the case of competition in two-part tariffs, we … (or the competition authority) can choose one among the rules to pursue additional objectives such as consumer surplus …

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Competition and Profitability in Indian Manufacturing Industries

Pushpangadan, K.; Shanta, N. - In: Indian Economic Review 43 (2008) July, pp. 103-123

The paper examines empirical evidence on the dynamic view of competition in Indian manufacturing industries using … average strength of competition in the manufacturing sector shows that it takes 0.9 years for the deviation of profit rates …

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Competitive Equilibria with Asymmetric Information: Existence with Entry Fees.

Bisin, A.; Gottardi, P. - C.V. Starr Center for Applied Economics, Department of … - 1999

This paper studies competitive equilibria in economies characterized by the presence of asymmetric information, where non-exclusive contracts with payoffs dependent on the agents' private information are traded on competitive markets. For such economies competitive equilibria may not exist with...

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