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Afrofuturist ambiguities: Inclusion and consolidation in South African digital finance
Big Data & SocietyIn recent years, two changes have begun to transform the South African banking sector. First, financial technology startups have emerged, offering payments and other services via bespoke mobile apps, powered by a combination of official access to bank ...
Maha Rafi Atal, Pamela Mondliwa
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Motor fuel retail prices regulation: The influence of the social order characteristics
УправленецRegulating retail fuel prices, which are getting particularly volatile, is an urgent issue amid the shock period that the global energy industry is facing today. Price volatility, however, is a factor in coordinating consumers’ and fuel producers’ plans.
Sergey I. Fedorov
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The economics of the cloud [PDF]
ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, 2014 This letter provides an overview of our recent work studying the impacts of price competition and congestion in the cloud marketplace. Specifically, we discuss a three-tier market model that studies a vertical marketplace where users purchase services from Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers, which in turn purchase computing resources from either ...
Anselmi, Jonatha +5 more
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CONDENSATION IN AN ECONOMIC MODEL WITH BRAND COMPETITION [PDF]
International Journal of Modern Physics C, 2006 We present a linear agent based model on brand competition. Each agent belongs to one of the two brands and interacts with its nearest neighbors. In the process the agent can decide to change to the other brand if the move is beneficial. The numerical simulations show that the systems always condenses into a state when all agents belong to a single ...
L. Casillas +3 more
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Generic drugs: Review and experiences from South India
Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2015 The cost of pharmaceuticals, as a percentage of total healthcare spending, has been rising worldwide. This has resulted in strained national budgets and a high proportion of people without access to essential medications. Though India has become a global
Philip Mathew
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The Urgency of Harmonizing Competition Laws in Moving Towards the ASEAN Free Trade Area
Fiat Justisia, 2020 ASEAN had created the ASEAN Regional Guidelines on Competition Policy and Handbook on Competition Policy and Law in ASEAN for Business as guides for assessment of the behaviour of business people in the industry and market. The Regional Guidelines “only”
Hanif Nur Widhiyanti
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Some questions of world economic competition [PDF]
Međunarodni Problemi, 2008 The paper searches for an answer to the following questions: why had the situation in Japan and the European Union situation improved in comparison with the one in United States prior to the first oil price shock; what factors altered this tendency later,
Simon György, Simon György Jr.
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The competitive paradigm in spatial economics [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2016 The history of the relationship between spatial economics and general equilibrium theory is both complex and obscure. It is complex because it is fraught with difficulties that have been put aside for simplicity. As the competitive model is the starting point of any study in which the market plays an important role, one should naturally try to ...
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Russian Journal of Economics and LawObjective: to analyze China’s Digital Silk Road Initiative (DSR) as one of the key elements of the PRC’s strategy within the “One Belt, One Road” project; to identify and systematize the main directions of the DSR program and its impact on global digital
E. L. Sidorenko
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Big Publishing and the Economics of Competition
American Journal of Public Health, 2014 The author reflects on the commercial enterprise aspect of the scientific publishing industry. Topics include the costs associated with maintaining collections of journals by academic libraries, the presence of an oligopoly within the scientific publishing market, and the use of bibliometric indicators by publishers as a marketing strategy.
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