Measuring Industry Concentration of Equity Investment Funds in the Republic of Croatia [PDF]
The overall objective of this work is to investigate further development of the capital markets in the Republic of Croatia with a focus on industry concentration of equity investment funds with a public offering, and the changes that they have ...
Ivan Kristek
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Food and Energy Security, Volume 15, Issue 3, May/June 2026.ABSTRACT Farm diversification provides alternative sources of income and helps mitigate risks associated with relying solely on one crop. This study investigated the impact of diversification on the welfare of Ghanaian cocoa farmers. Primary data were collected from 403 smallholder cocoa farmers using a multi‐stage sampling technique and analyzed using
Camillus Abawiera Wongnaa +3 more
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Students and the market for schools in Haiti [PDF]
Uniquely among Latin American and Caribbean countries, Haiti has a largely non-public education system. Prior to the earthquake of January 2010, just 19 percent of primary school students were enrolled in public schools, with the remainder enrolled in a ...
Demombynes, Gabriel +2 more
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The hhi Package: Streamlined Calculation and Visualization of Herfindahl-Hirschman Index Scores [PDF]
Journal of Open Source Software, 2018 openaire +1 more source
DO MANUFACTURING PLANTS CLUSTER ACROSS RURAL AREAS? EVIDENCE FROM A PROBABILISTIC MODELING APPROACH [PDF]
A statistical procedure for detecting "contagious" location patterns for manufacturing establishments is presented. Manufacturing industries' establishment clustering tendencies are ranked based on the "dispersion parameter" of the negative binomial ...
Barkley, David L. +2 more
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Spatial price competition and buyer power in the U.S. beef packing industry
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Volume 108, Issue 3, Page 771-798, May 2026.Abstract We develop a spatially‐explicit model of the U.S. beef packing industry to study key questions related to competition in an oligopsony setting. Cattle supplies are modeled at the county level, and packing plants' location, capacity, and ownership are taken as given. Packers procure negotiated cattle by competing in prices in each local (county)
GianCarlo Moschini, T. Jake Smith
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Competition and the Gender Wage Gap: New Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data in Hungary 1986-2003 [PDF]
The overall gender wage gap fell from .31 to .15 between 1986 and 2003 following the transition to a free market in Hungary. During the same time period, firms faced increased competition from both new domestic and foreign firms due to the rapid ...
Anna Lovasz
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Idiosyncratic Political Risk and Bad News Hoarding
Financial Review, Volume 61, Issue 2, Page 659-685, May 2026.ABSTRACT Managers may respond to greater political risk by suppressing unfavorable news from outsiders to manage investors’ perceptions about firm risk and protect their careers. However, they may also avoid engaging in bad news hoarding activities because exposure to political risk increases firm visibility and attracts greater scrutiny. Using a novel
Gonul Colak +2 more
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Association between continuity of care and detection of hypertension in Dutch general practice: a 10-year cohort study. [PDF]
BMJ Openvan der Velde NR +5 more
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Dynamic Assessment of Bertrand Oligopsony in the U.S. Cattle Procurement Market [PDF]
The new empirical industrial organization approach with the Bertrand model is employed to measure the oligopsony market power in the U.S. cattle procurement market.
Chung, Chanjin, Ji, In Bae
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