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Why Is Exclusivity in Broadcasting Rights Prevalent and Why Does Simple Regulation Fail?

The RAND Journal of Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Pay‐TV firms compete both downstream to attract viewers and upstream to acquire broadcasting rights. Because profits inherited from downstream competition satisfy a convexity property, allocating rights to the dominant firm maximizes the industry profit.
David Martimort, Jerome Pouyet
wiley   +1 more source

Service robots’ feasibility in the hotel industry: A case study of Hotel Presidentti

, 2020
Linh Hahkio
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South Africa: The Ambiguities of a Middle Power

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT South Africa represents an interesting species of a middle power. This derives from its inherited economic muscle as Africa's powerhouse and the liberation struggle against apartheid, both of which have shaped its democratic transition. The traditions of liberation and democracy, in turn, have profoundly influenced how South Africa has ...
Garth L. le Pere
wiley   +1 more source

Marginal Tax Rates of Canadian Public Firms and the Applicability of Marginal Tax Rates in Corporate Decisions*

Accounting Perspectives, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While several US studies demonstrate the importance of using marginal tax rates (MTRs) to study corporate decisions and tax incentives, research using MTR in the Canadian setting is limited. The MTR literature has made several improvements on the estimation process using US firms, but these advances have not been made available for Canadian ...
Khin Phyo Hlaing, Bin (Betty) Xing
wiley   +1 more source

Rethinking the contract‐failure theory

American Business Law Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The contract‐failure theory posits that the nonprofit form can be an indicator of high product quality because the nondistribution constraint reduces the nonprofit manager's financial benefits from cheating. This would give nonprofits an advantage over for‐profit firms when consumers cannot determine product quality and thus explains ...
Yumiao Wang
wiley   +1 more source

Enhancing the Maintenance Practice to Improve Guests’ Satisfaction in the Hotels Industry

Cheong Peng Au-Yong, Pui Kei Hoh, Daniel Amos   +2 more
openalex   +2 more sources

An action research study of a leadership development programme in the hotel industry [PDF]

, 2016
H C Cooke
openalex  

Penerapan the Service Profit Chain Pada Industri Perhotelan (The Application of the Service Profit Chain in the Hotel Industry)

, 2015
Ida Ayu Eka Purnama Dewi, I Gusti Bagus Rai Utama   +1 more
openalex   +1 more source

Spatial price competition and buyer power in the U.S. beef packing industry

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source