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Naval Research Logistics (NRL), EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines the impacts of Volume‐Based Procurement (VBP) policies on pharmaceutical supply chains, with a focus on the strategic behaviors of manufacturers. VBP aims to reduce costs and stabilize supplies by centralizing procurement through competition based on volumes and prices.
Nani Zhou, Tong Wang, Guohua Wan
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Can Rivalry Increase Prices? [PDF]
Spatially differentiated duopolists set higher-than-monopoly prices at some distances. This phenomenon is shown to occur in any finite- dimensional space for a class of reservation prices that covers concavity and convexity in perceived distance from a ...
Christian Roessler
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Nonprofit Management and Leadership, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Under the roof of Christian churches in Central Europe, some nonprofit organizations (NPOs) grow, while others are in marked decline. Our study in this context extends a previous focus on financial indicators to NPO managers' experiences, their role clarity and job satisfaction, during phases of organizational growth and decline. Specifically,
Max Niehoff, Johannes Stark
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Obesity, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective Bariatric surgery has been suggested to improve obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) in short‐term studies, but long‐term evidence is limited. We evaluated remission and new onset of OSA over 20 years in participants from the Swedish Obese Subjects (SOS) study, comparing bariatric surgery with usual obesity care.
Ida Arnetorp +8 more
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COOPERATIVE ANTITRUST MONOPOLIZATION AND THE THEORY OF CONTESTABLE MARKETS [PDF]
The judiciary has relied on a firm's market share to evaluate the presence of monopoly power for a Sherman Act monopolization violation. However, an allegation that a firm's market share constitutes monopoly power may be refuted by evidence that there ...
Centner, Terence J. +1 more
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Oikos, EarlyView.The ability of plants to attract pollinators is context‐dependent, influenced by floral traits, abundance, and resources from the plant community. Indirect interactions through shared pollinators, from competition to facilitation, may lead to varied reproductive outputs in plants, and the mechanisms behind these interactions remain to be fully ...
Marsal D. De Amorim +6 more
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Unit Versus Ad Valorem Taxes : Monopoly In General Equilibrium [PDF]
We show that if a monopoly sector is imbedded in a general equilibrium framework and profits are taxed at one hundred percent, then unit (specific) taxation and ad valorem taxation are welfare-wise equivalent.
Blackorby, Charles, Murty, Sushama
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JOM Forum: Theory Testing Is Theory Generation
Journal of Operations Management, EarlyView.
Mikko Ketokivi +6 more
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Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Policy robustness, that is, the capacity of policies to sustain performance across diverse and uncertain futures, is increasingly considered a core objective of public policymaking. Although adaptive policymaking is widely promoted as an approach to achieving policy robustness, it suffers from a central paradox highlighted by theories of the ...
Ola G. El‐Taliawi, Nihit Goyal
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Monopoly, Multi-Product Quality, Consumer Heterogeneity, and Market Segmentation
GamesThis paper introduces a novel ratio-based framework for analyzing how consumer heterogeneity translates into product differentiation in vertically structured monopoly markets. We consider a monopolist facing a continuum of consumers and a strictly convex
Amit Gayer
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