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Collusive Price Leadership [PDF]
The Journal of Industrial Economics, 1990 The authors study the pattern of pricing in which price changes are first announced by one firm and then matched by its rivals. In their model, this price leadership facilitates collusion under asymmetric information. In equilibrium, the leader earns higher profits than the follower.
Rotemberg, Julio J, Saloner, Garth
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From paradise lost to paradise regained: A compassionate retuning of assessed seminars
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Universities often aim to deliver a curriculum that is both research‐based and develops transferable skills in students, thereby enhancing their competitiveness in the job market. At the same time, evidence indicates that university students experience significant stress owing to the competitive nature of the assessments, an aspect that is ...
Sarah Stephen
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How Supply Networks Influence Sustainable Innovation: Evidence From Ghana's Public Works Procurement
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.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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Antecedents of corruption in the perspective of local government employees: A fraud hexagon theory approach [PDF]
Public and Municipal FinanceThe purpose of this study is to analyze the factors that influence the occurrence of accounting fraud in local governments using the fraud hexagon theory.
Aini Indrijawati +2 more
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Coordinating EV Charging via Blockchain
Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy, 2020 The increasing electric vehicle (EV) penetration in a distribution network triggers the need for EV charging coordination. This paper firstly proposes a hierarchical EV charging coordination model and an algorithm based on Lagrangian relaxation.
Jian Ping +4 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The aim of this research is to verify whether institutional quality affects the relationship between green innovation and firm efficiency within the high‐tech manufacturing sectors. To estimate jointly the parameters of a stochastic frontier and the coefficients of a model explaining technical inefficiency, we employed the one‐step estimation ...
Mariarosaria Agostino +2 more
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Two-Sided Tacit Collusion: Another Step towards the Role of Demand-Side
Energies, 2017 In the context of agent-based simulation framework of collusion, this paper seeks for two-sided tacit collusion among supply-side and demand-side participants in a constrained network and impacts of this collusion on the market outcomes.
Mehdi Jabbari Zideh +1 more
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Мир новой экономики, 2021 Studying the research results by Nobel prize-winning economists is a fundamentally important task for determining the most promising areas of development of Russian economic science.
Y. P. Voronov
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Board Governance as a Strategic Mechanism: Carbon Risk and Firm Performance
Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Carbon emissions are a major contributor to global warming and pose significant threats to the environment. In response to the urgency of climate change, firms are under increasing pressure to adopt policies that enhance environmental performance while reducing carbon risk.
Sarmad Ali +3 more
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Collusive Vertical Relations [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2017 We investigate the possibility for two vertically related firms to at least partially collude on the wholesale price over an infinite horizon to mitigate or eliminate the effects of double marginalisation, thereby avoiding contracts which might not be enforceable.
Stefano Bolatto, Luca Lambertini
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