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Competitive Diffusion [PDF]

open access: possibleJournal of Political Economy, 1994
The usual explanation for why the producers of a given product use different technologies involves "vintage-capital": A firm understands the frontier technology, but can still prefer an older, less efficient technology in which it has made specific physical and human capital investments. This paper develops an alternative.
Jovanovic, Boyan, MacDonald, Glenn M.
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Competition, competition policy, competitiveness, globalization and development [PDF]

open access: possible, 2016
This paper explores the connections between globalization, competition, competition policy and competitiveness. These concepts and the relationships between them have emerged as important issues in the current development debate at both national and international levels.
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How Competitive Is Competitive Bidding?

Health Affairs, 1991
In recent years, states have undertaken numerous efforts to curtail the rapidly rising costs of Medicaid, the federal/ state program of health insurance for the poor. Some of these efforts have centered on increasing the level of competition in medical care markets in the hope of bringing down prices for services.
L, Paringer, N, McCall
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FIRST Robotics Competition [Competitions]

IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, 2015
Reports on the FIRST robotics competition. The FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) is one of four Progression of Programs of FIRST—an international not for-profit K-12 organization founded by inventor Dean Kamen to inspire young people’s interest and participation in science and technology.
Connie Haynes, Joel Edwards
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COMPETITION AND SUBNATIONAL GOVERNMENTS: TAX COMPETITION, COMPETITION IN URBAN AREAS, AND EDUCATION COMPETITION

National Tax Journal, 2014
Competition at the subnational level concerns how jurisdictions set tax, spending, or regulatory policies while accounting for the fact that these policies affect the locations of individuals, firm...
David R. Agrawal   +2 more
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On Competitive Bidding

Operations Research, 1975
This paper develops a model for describing some aspects of competitive bidding. The motivating purpose of the model was that of formally examining the hypothesis put forward by Capen, Clapp and Campbell: In a competitive oil and gas lease sale, or indeed in any bidding situation in which the ultimate value of the object to be won is subject to ...
M. E. Oren, A. C. Williams
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Competition for a Majority [PDF]

open access: possibleSSRN Electronic Journal, 2012
zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
PAULO BARELLI   +2 more
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Competitiveness, Competition, and Competition Policy

Since Mario Draghi's 2024 report on "The Future of European Competitiveness", identifying European (i) weaknesses in global innovation and, consequently, in global market impact, as well as (ii) regulatory overburden, the term competitiveness has been propelled into massive popularity.
Budzinski, Oliver, Stöhr, Annika
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Competition lessens competition

Economics Letters, 2013
We experimentally analyse simultaneous behaviour in a contest game and a public good game, whose endowment is shared. Competition for resources (i) almost eliminates overbidding, without affecting public good contributions and (ii) almost eliminates the behavioural spillovers between the games.
Godoy, Sara   +2 more
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