Taking on the Corporate Determinants of Ill-health and Health Inequity: A Scoping Review of Actions to Address Excessive Corporate Power to Protect and Promote the Public's Health. [PDF]
Wood B, Lacy-Nichols J, Sacks G.
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Erosion of Competition Policy in the Age of Populism: Cases of Hungary, Mexico and Turkey
ABSTRACT This paper examines how populist governments politicize competition policy and the agencies responsible for enforcing it, focusing on the cases of Hungary, Mexico, and Turkey. We argue that competition policy has critical importance for populist governments as its control helps them advance their policy objectives and facilitates their ...
Isik D. Özel, Umut Aydin
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How Supply Networks Influence Sustainable Innovation: Evidence From Ghana's Public Works Procurement
ABSTRACT Recent environmental and sustainability standards in procurement increase short‐term production and operational costs to suppliers, which are often recouped by charging price premiums for innovative solutions. However, public buyers are less likely to pay such price premiums, resulting in a disincentive among suppliers to bid for innovation ...
Peter Adjei‐Bamfo +5 more
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Appraisal of existing evidences of competition law and policy: Bilateral legislative developments of Sino-Pak. [PDF]
Soomro NE, Yuhui W.
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Application of Embodied Intelligence in Intelligent Warehousing and Logistics Scenarios
Embodied intelligence (EI) enhances digital platform efficiency in intelligent logistics, reducing transportation costs, improving throughput by 37.5%, and lowering energy consumption. EI‐driven improvements lead to discriminatory pricing strategies, while lightweight encryption ensures minimal performance overhead, maintaining real‐time operations ...
Jun Zhang, Chuan Zhang, Mingtao Zhang
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Coordination Effect of Oligopolists' Multimarket Contact
ABSTRACT In this article, we examine the coordination effect of oligopolists' multimarket contact with asymmetric cost. We extend a model of infinitely repeated multimarket contact games with “symmetric advantage” in the seminal paper of Bernheim and Whinston (The RAND Journal of Economics 1990; 21(1): 1–26).
Zuo Yu, Tianyu Luo
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Lawyer CEOs and Strategic Disclosure of Litigation Loss Contingencies
Using hand‐collected data, we find that lawyer CEOs, defined as CEOs with a legal education background, tend to make first disclosures about pending litigation cases on a timelier basis for litigation cases that end up with material losses than do non‐lawyer CEOs.
Feng Chen +3 more
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Considerations for state-imposed conditions on healthcare provider transactions. [PDF]
Montague AD +3 more
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Abstract The emerging relationship between fintechs and banks has revealed antitrust's antiquation. At one time, scholars predicted that fintechs could democratize banking while providing a critical source of competition. But then banks began to acquire their digital rivals: about 900 acquisitions of fintechs have taken place since 2021.
Gregory Day, Lindsay Sain Jones
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Rethinking the contract‐failure theory
Abstract The contract‐failure theory posits that the nonprofit form can be an indicator of high product quality because the nondistribution constraint reduces the nonprofit manager's financial benefits from cheating. This would give nonprofits an advantage over for‐profit firms when consumers cannot determine product quality and thus explains ...
Yumiao Wang
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