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DISTINGUISHING THE SOURCE OF MARKET POWER: AN APPLICATION TO CIGARETTE MANUFACTURING [PDF]
We compare nonparametric and nonstructural market power tests using data from the cigarette manufacturing industry. Tests are implemented to examine both monopoly and monopsony power exertion by cigarette manufacturers. Results indicate that market power
Love, H. Alan +2 more
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Oil Futures Prices, Inflation Expectations, and Bond Risk Premiums
Journal of Futures Markets, EarlyView.ABSTRACT By decomposing West Texas Intermediate futures price changes into structural supply and demand shocks, this paper shows that dissecting the oil price significantly improves inflation forecasts. Empirically, demand‐driven shocks predict a negative real bond risk premium but a positive inflation risk premium; these opposing effects result in an ...
Haibo Jiang
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Poor maize productivity in Zimbabwe: Can collusion in pricing by seed houses be the cause?
Cogent Food & Agriculture, 2019 High cost of hybrid seed can affect food self-sufficiency. A study was conducted to investigate the structure, conduct and performance of the hybrid maize seed industry in Zimbabwe to determine whether the level of competition in the industry caused high
Handsen Tibugari +9 more
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Competition, Consumer Welfare and Monopoly Power [PDF]
An applied general equilibrium analysis of monopoly power is proposed as an alternative to the partial equilibrium analyses of monopoly pricing current in antitrust economics.
Donald J. Brown, G.A. Wood
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Geographic and Institutional Patterns of Transoral Robotic Surgery in Head and Neck Cancer
Head &Neck, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Introduction Transoral robotic surgery (TORS) is increasingly used for oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (OPSCC), yet national patterns of TORS availability for Medicare beneficiaries are not well defined. We characterized hospital type, geographic distribution, and market concentration of TORS.
Daniel Gilmore +9 more
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Consequences of Vertical Separation and Monopoly: Evidence from the Telecom Privatizations [PDF]
Two common policy instruments used by governments around the world to increase the availability of basic telephony (i.e., local, long distance, and international service) have been: (1) award monopoly rights on basic services to cross-subsidize ...
Viani, Bruno E.
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International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates how the personal characteristics of finance ministers influence political budget cycles in Africa. Using a new dataset covering 300 finance ministers across 23 countries from 1980 to 2020, we find that political budget cycles primarily take the form of increased government consumption during election years.
Christine Olivia Strong
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Central European Management Journal, 2019 Purpose: Assuming a duopoly industry with pollution producing processes, the aim of this work is to study the firms’ choice to engage in Environmental Corporate Social Responsibility (ECSR) by means of “green” managerial delegation, i.e.
Buccella Domenico, Wojna Michał
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Historia y Sociedad, 2015 In early 1917, a company that gathered all of Mendoza’s wine producers was founded. This was the last anti-cyclical strategy promoted by the State with the goal of dealing with a long lasting economical crisis.
Patricia Elena Barrio
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