Market Structure, Entrance Conditions and Optimal Number of Banks in the Bolivian Financial System: A Concentration and Industrial Mobility Indicators Approach [PDF]
This paper calculates indicators of market structure: concentration ratio, Herfindahl index, Herfindahl-Hirschman index, inverse of the Herfindahl index and the stability indicator. These indicators are used: (1) to measure indirectly the competitiveness
Gonzales-Martínez, Rolando
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The impacts of New York's balance billing regulation on ground ambulance pricing
Health Services Research, Volume 60, Issue 2, April 2025.Abstract Objective To examine the effects of New York's surprise billing regulations on price changes by emergency ground ambulance service providers. Study Design We exploited a natural experiment using a difference‐in‐differences design with randomization inference (RI) to examine the effects of New York state regulations on the prices of emergency ...
Wendy Y. Xu +3 more
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Company town socio-economic transformation: concentration and factors system
SHS Web of Conferences, 2016 In the article the authors suggest evaluating the level of diversification using Herfindahl-Hirschman index that reflects the economic activity concentration within the certain timespan.
Antonova Irine S. +2 more
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THE DEGREE OF SERVICE TRADE CONCENTRATION NETWEEN THE REPUBLIC OF ARMENIA AND MEMBER STATES OF THE EURASIAN ECONOMIC UNIO [PDF]
Proceedings on Engineering SciencesThis article examined the degree of service trade concentration between the Republic of Armenia and the Eurasian Economic Union countries between 2014 and 2021.
Diana Galoyan +3 more
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Socially Beneficial Mergers: A New Class of Concentration Indices [PDF]
The prominent Herfindahl-Hirschman index (HHI), yields a higher concentration level in response to any merger between firms, implying that any merger will decrease the social welfare. Although HHI is used by the Anti-trust Division of the U.S. Department
Brett Katzman, Nejat Anbarci
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Prediction analysis of the Herfindahl-Hirschman index based on recurrent neural networks
Journal of Infrastructure, Policy and DevelopmentThe technological development and growth of the telecommunications industry have had a great positive impact on the education, health, and economic sectors, among others. However, they have also increased rivalry between companies in the market to keep and acquire new customers.
Cesar Hernandez +2 more
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HERALD, 2017 The paper describes the automated calculation of Herfindahl–Hirschman Index of regional specialization. Having used GIS programming and Python programming language, a tool has been designed to enable the automated calculation and visualization of the results of the observed index within ArcGIS software environment.
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Network Structure and the Efficiency Gains from Mergers: Evidence from U.S. Freight Railroads
The RAND Journal of Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The trade‐off between market power and efficiency gains is central to antitrust analyses of mergers, but empirical evidence quantifying efficiencies remains limited. Using transaction‐level data from U.S. freight railroads (1985–2005), this article quantifies merger‐induced cost efficiencies, driven mainly by eliminating inter‐railroad ...
Yanyou Chen
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Do Terms-of-Trade Effects Matter for Trade Agreements? Evidence from WTO Countries [PDF]
In the literature on the economics of international trade institutions, a key question is whether or not terms-of-trade effects drive international trade agreements.
Anna Maria Mayda, Rodney D. Ludema
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IPC or total deposits? There is a difference [PDF]
An abstract for this article is not availableBank deposits ; Federal Reserve District ...
Donald L. Welker
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