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Erosion of Competition Policy in the Age of Populism: Cases of Hungary, Mexico and Turkey

open access: yesGovernance, Volume 39, Issue 2, April 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

How Supply Networks Influence Sustainable Innovation: Evidence From Ghana's Public Works Procurement

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, Volume 35, Issue 3, Page 4309-4327, March 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Application of Embodied Intelligence in Intelligent Warehousing and Logistics Scenarios

open access: yesEngineering Reports, Volume 8, Issue 3, March 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Coordination Effect of Oligopolists' Multimarket Contact

open access: yesInternational Studies of Economics, Volume 21, Issue 1, Page 45-56, March 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Lawyer CEOs and Strategic Disclosure of Litigation Loss Contingencies

open access: yesAbacus, Volume 62, Issue 1, Page 95-132, March 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Considerations for state-imposed conditions on healthcare provider transactions. [PDF]

open access: yesFront Public Health, 2023
Montague AD   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Antitrust for the fintech era

open access: yesAmerican Business Law Journal, Volume 63, Issue 1, Page 57-78, Spring 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Rethinking the contract‐failure theory

open access: yesAmerican Business Law Journal, Volume 63, Issue 1, Page 5-31, Spring 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

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