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The Failure of Price Competition In The Turkish Credit Card Market

The failure of competition and the consequent high and sticky interest rates in credit card markets have been the subject of a considerable amount of debate and research lately.
Akin, Guzin Gulsun, Yildiran, Levent, Aysan, Ahmet Faruk, Kara, Gazi Ishak   +3 more
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The Transaction-Cost Roots of Market Failure

, 2020
Our purpose is to reveal the transaction cost character of the different forms of market failure where transaction costs are defined as the costs of using the market mechanism, what it costs to organize market exchange or overcome the obstacles to an ...
Todorova, Tamara
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Mapping the “Supply–Demand–Flow” of Ecosystem Services for Ecosystem Management in China

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
This study develops a “supply–demand–flow” framework clarifies how ecosystem services move between regions by distinguishing potential and actual supply and demand. Using integrated biophysical–socioeconomic modeling, nine services in China were mapped.
Yikun Zhang, Yadong Yang, Yongsheng Wang, Guirui Yu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Was Serfdom Good for the Economy?

Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte
Some recent theories have sought to rehabilitate serfdom, postulating that it could have been economically beneficial because lords used their institutional power to address pre-modern market failures.
Ogilvie Sheilagh
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MARKET FAILURE IN MULTIPHASE ELECTRIC POWER DEVELOPMENT FOR AGRICULTURAL IRRIGATION

The adoption of multiphase electric power for electric irrigation has been limited in an area characterized by extremely rapid expansion of irrigated acreage despite production cost advantages.
Broder, Josef M., Musser, Wesley N., Centner, Terence J., Tew, Bernard V.   +3 more
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Tacit Coordination in a Decentralized Market Entry Game with Fixed Capacity [PDF]

Tacit coordination is studied experimentally in a class of iterated market entry games with a relatively small number of potential entrants (n = 6), symmetric players, and fixed entry fees.
Rami Zwick, Amnon Rapoport
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Childcare Market Failure

, 2015
In the United States, family law norms and childcare policy have long reflected the view that childcare is a private, family matter. But childcare has crossed the private-public divide.
Harbach, Meredith Johnson, Harbach, Meredith J.   +1 more
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Viability mechanisms in market systems: prerequisites for market shaping

, 2020
PurposeThis paper develops a conceptual framework based on the identification and examination of the mechanisms (termed “viability mechanisms”) under which market-shaping activities yield the emergence of a viable market: one able to adapt to the ...
Nenonen S., Peters, Linda D., Nenonen, Suvi, Polese, Francesco, Frow P., Peters L., Polese F., Frow, Pennie, Payne, Adrian, Payne A.   +9 more
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A Chirality‐Converted Bacteriolytic Dodecapeptide Regulates Vibrio‐Induced Polymicrobial Infection and Ameliorates Invasion‐Associated Gut Microbiota Disequilibrium

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Multidrug‐resistant Vibrio infections are rising rapidly and threaten coastal populations worldwide. This study introduces D‐zp37, a chirality‐engineered antimicrobial peptide with exceptional potency against resistant Vibrio species. D‐zp37 kills planktonic cells, blocks mixed‐species biofilms, disrupts essential bacterial stress responses, and shows ...
Ping Zeng, Qipeng Cheng, Xiaoxu Zhang, Honglan Wang, Jinghan Zhang, Xinyi Ding, Pengfei Zhang, Lanhua Yi, Kwok‐Yin Wong, Kin‐Fai Chan, Sheng Chen, Sharon Shui Yee Leung   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Failure in Marketing

Collaborative Librarianship, 2011
This paper addresses the current climate in the library world from the perspective of a library student. We are at a point where the actual value of libraries and library services are of the utmost importance, but the perceived importance from our patron base is on the decline. The root of the problem is that of marketing.
openaire   +2 more sources