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comes to preferences regarding competition. We take a different point of view and claim that gender-task stereotypes are … women self-select significantly less into competition against men only in the quantitative task. This finding suggests that … remaining gender differences for entry into competition are driven by gender-task stereotypes. As a robustness check, we explore …
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The Productivity Commission’s inquiry report into the ‘Road and Rail Freight Infrastructure Pricing’, was tabled in Parliament in April 2007. The Commission had been asked to inquiry into the costs of freight transport infrastructure on major road and rail networks and options for...
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The Commission’s modelling indicates that there would be economy–wide benefits from further reductions in assistance to the automotive sector, particularly for tariffs. It also suggests that the benefits would be larger under the current assistance reduction program than options entailing...
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market. Moreover, the higher the degree of competition in the market for news, the more likely that media outlets will hire …
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Cooperatives and investor-owned firms are alternative forms of business organisation that coexist and compete in many markets. The theoretical literature has identified a number of comparative advantages and disadvantages of cooperatives. Decentralized decision making within cooperatives may...
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if leverage influences the regulated access charges, then it will also impact competition in the downstream segment …. Therefore, we also investigate the impact of the PTO’s leverage on market competition. Our results show that leverage positively … regulator’s lack of commitment within a vertically integrated network industry may somewhat impair or delay competition in the …
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This paper proposes a novel mechanism whereby larger markets increase competition and facilitate process innovation …
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We analyse the effect of competition on quality in hospital market with regulated prices, considering both the effect … of free patient choice (monopoly versus competition) and increased competition through lower transportation costs …
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We investigate the effect of competition on quality in regulated markets (e.g., health care, higher education, public … minimum level in steady state, implying that quality competition is effectively eliminated. In this case, static models tend … to exaggerate the positive effect of competition on quality. Our results can explain the mixed empirical evidence on …
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