Aiming Higher: Results From a State Scorecard on Health System Performance [PDF]
, 2007 Assesses state variation across key dimensions of health system performance -- access, quality, avoidable hospital use and costs, equity, and healthy lives -- and assigns overall state rankings as well as ranks on each ...
Cathy Schoen +4 more
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Vertical differentiation, network externalities and compatibility decisions : an alternative approach [PDF]
We characterize the equilibrium of a game in vertically differentiated market which exhibits network externalities. There are two firms, an incumbent and a potential entrant.
Hend Ghazzai, Rim Lahmandi-Ayed
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Entry Deterrence and Signaling in Markets for Search Goods [PDF]
This paper studies entry in markets for search goods. Signaling through prices is studied when an entrant s quality is (i) private information; and (ii) common information of entrant and incumbent.
Bijl, P.W.J. de
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The Coexistence of Multiple Distributions Systems for Financial Services: The Case of Property-Liability Insurance [PDF]
Property-liability insurance is distributed by two different types of firms, those that distribute their product through independent agents, who represent more than one insurer,and direct writing insurers that distribute insurance through exclusive ...
Allen N. Berger +2 more
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Quality and Inclusion of Small Producers in Value Chains: A Theoretical Note. [PDF]
This paper develops a formal theory of the endogenous process of the introduction of high quality products in developing countries. Initial differences in income and capital and transaction costs are shown to affect the emergence of and the size of the ...
Rozelle, Scott +3 more
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Search Costs and Risky Investment in Quality [PDF]
One striking development associated with the explosion of e-commerce is the increased transparency of sellers' quality history. In this paper we analyze how this affects fi rms' incentives to invest in quality when the outcome of investment is uncertain.
Arthur Fishman, Nadav Levy
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Development Through Synergistic Reform [PDF]
Several studies suggest that production of high-quality output is a precondition for firms in less developed countries to participate in the export market.
James E. Rauch
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Organization analysis of transaction costs
Vìsnik Žitomirsʹkogo Deržavnogo Tehnologìčnogo Unìversitetu: Ekonomìčnì Nauki, 2016 Managing of transaction costs provides availability of timely, reliable and sufficient information. That’s why, the organization and method of economic analysis of transaction costs should fit the inquiries of management personnel. The study outlines the
I.V. Zamula, T.N. Prut
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Road and Maritime Transport Costs: A Comparative Analysis of Spanish Exports to Poland and Turkey [PDF]
In this paper, we analyze the determinants of maritime and road transport costs for Spanish exports to Poland and Turkey and investigate the different effects of these costs on international trade.
Felicitas Nowak-Lehmann D. +1 more
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Why Should a Firm Choose to Limit the Size of Its Market Area? [PDF]
We analyze a variant of the standard Dixit-Stiglitz (AER, 1977) model, adding transport costs and assuming that, in addition to price, a firm can choose the size of the market area and the quality of the product. We also modify the standard cost function,
Marco Alderighi
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