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How Competitive Are State Insurance Markets? [PDF]
, 2011 Assesses the competitiveness of state health insurance markets for individuals and small groups. Explains how market competitiveness will affect state policy decisions on insurance exchange design, new market rules, and rate ...
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Contemporary Accounting Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A concentrated debt structure can facilitate creditor coordination, which reduces the financial distress cost in a liquidity default but also increases the risk of a strategic default. Debt concentration affects the sensitivity of leverage to tax through these two forces.
Xiaoli Hu +3 more
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Linking Conflict to Inequality and Polarization [PDF]
In this paper we study a behavioral model of conflict that provides a basis for choosing certain indices of dispersion as indicators for conflict. We show that the (equilibrium) level of conflict can be expressed as an (approximate) linear function of ...
Debraj Ray, Joan Esteban
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Abacus, EarlyView.This study examines whether comparable financial information can mitigate differences between individual and institutional investors’ trading behaviour, particularly behaviour that is shaped by investor sentiment. The results indicate that the higher the comparability, the smaller the gap in trading behaviour driven by investor sentiment between ...
Eun Hye Jo, Jung Wha (Jenny) Lee
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ANALYSIS OF THE MARKET STRUCTURE OF HOSPITAL INDUSTRY IN INDONESIA
Jurnal Administrasi Kesehatan IndonesiaBackground: Over the past decade, private investments in health care including hospital have grown significantly, more than doubling. As the number of hospitals in Indonesia increases, a competitive business environment develops.
Emma Rachmawati +7 more
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Manufacturing Industry in Armenia: Analysis of the Growth Factors [PDF]
Prostranstvennaâ ÈkonomikaEconomic development largely depends on the growth of specific sectors of the economy. Moreover, when a country has limited resources, optimal investment in a particular economic sector is crucial.
Mariam Ambartsumovna Voskanyan +2 more
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Privatization, concentration, and pressure for protection : a steel sector study [PDF]
In considering whether to privatize a large state-owned steel enterprise in Argentina, the question arose: Would its sale to a consortium of large domestic enterprises, and the resulting increase in firm concentration, inevitably lead to cries for ...
Duncan, Ronald C., Ying Qian
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Linking conflict to inequality and polarization [PDF]
, 2009 In this paper we study a behavioral model of conflict that provides a basis for choosing certain indices of dispersion as indicators for conflict. We show that the (equilibrium) level of conflict can be expressed as an (approximate) linear function of ...
Esteban, Joan +3 more
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Towards Credible GHG Reporting: The Role of GHG Assurance and Assurance Providers in Firm Valuation
Abacus, EarlyView.The demand for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions disclosures is rising globally; yet, the credibility of such information remains uncertain when assurance is not mandated. Drawing on a sample of firms from 43 countries, this study examines the role of GHG assurance and the choice of assurance provider in the market value effects of GHG emissions.
Sudipta Bose +2 more
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Retail sector concentration and price dynamics in the euro area: a regional analysis [PDF]
We conduct a regional analysis of the relationship between market concentration and price dynamics in the grocery retail sector, focusing on a sample of five categories of goods belonging to the 12 COICOP aggregation and on a panel of countries that ...
Concetta Rondinelli, Emanuela Ciapanna
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