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Showing 1 to 20 of 58 for “"Market Concentration"”.
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Bank Market Concentration, Advertising Intensity, Price-Cost Margins, and Costs of Production: An Empirical Approach
… on the relationship between local bank market concentration and interest rate performance measures has been established, but the systematic influence of market structure on costs of production, advertising intensity, and profit margins has received little attention. The purpose of this …
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The Effects of Local Government GAAP Regulation on Audit Market Concentration, Auditor Specialization, and Audit Fees
… statement disclosure regulation on auditor market concentration and audit fees. I compare auditor industry concentration rates between municipalities reporting under the Single Audit Act in the state of Michigan, which requires all local governments to follow GAAP reporting, with …
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The effect of audit market concentration on audit pricing and audit quality : the role of the size of the audit market
The GAO has recently expressed concern that audit market concentration (i.e., not client concentration) could result in greater audit fees and lower audit quality. However, the extant literature finds that local audit markets with higher concentration have lower audit fees (Numan and Willekens …
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Evaluating the impact of market structure in mobile telecommunications markets: panel data analysis for emerging economies
… econometric models to investigate the impact of market structure on market outcomes such as mobile prices and investment in emerging economies. This is done using quarterly panel data on fifteen emerging economies across four continents for the period between 2006 and 2015. The …
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Essays on financial stability and the industrial organization of the banking system
… the first chapter, I ask whether the notion that market concentration promotes stability survives when the government intervention during a crisis is properly taken into account. To this end, I study suspension policies in an environment without commitment, following Ennis and Keister (2009). When …
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Three Essays On Insurance Asset Management
… the relation between cash holdings and market concentration in the U.S. property-liability insurance industry. We leverage the highly disaggregated nature of insurer statutory data to construct a refined market concentration measure, market space weighted concentration, which more …
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The Impact of Hospital Consolidation: An Examination of Consolidating Hospitals and Their Rivals
… price savings were mitigated by market concentration. Therefore, in highly concentrated markets, there was evidence that market power effects dominated efficiency effects. Conversely, rival hospital costs and prices changes in the third study did not vary significantly from match …
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Entry threat as a determinant of accounting earnings management
… if entry threat, as reflected in industrial market structure, affects earnings management. Specifically, this study uses entry barriers as a proxy for probability of potential entries, and market leadership and market concentration as proxies for entry-induced incumbency losses. It then …
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Exploring the perspectives of audit committee members on mandatory audit firm rotation in a South African context
… auditor independence, the lowering of audit firm market concentration and acceleration of the rate of transformation in the South African audit industry. The findings show a general consensus among the audit committee members interviewed that MAFR will not achieve any of the objectives of the IRBA …
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The Determinants of the Financial Performance of Insurance Companies in Mauritius
… written premiums, reinsurance, combined ratio, market concentration, foreign exchange, inflation and GDP growth on the profitability of insurers in both the life and the nonlife markets. Profitability was proxied by return on assets (ROA) and the underwriting profit ratio (UWPR). The study …
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Essays on the taxation and regulation of financial markets
… analyzing the economic effects of taxation, market structure, and the regulatory environment on financial markets, focusing in particular on financial intermediaries such as banks and mutual funds. The first chapter uses the unprecedented changes in the degree of competition in local banking …
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Labor supply and accounting firm mergers
… accounting labor supply shocks affect the audit market. Using a novel dataset that includes both large and small accounting firms, I identify labor supply shocks using the 150-Hour Rule and the Mobility Provision and investigate the resulting incidence of mergers and acquisitions (M&A). I find …
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Impact of Egypt's economic reform programme on the stock market performance
… this programme has affected Egypt's stock market performance. Using 18 years of data, which covered the period 1980/8 1 to 1997/98 and incorporates time periods prior to and after adopting the economic reform programme, the thesis empirically investigates three main issues. Firstly, there …
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Essays on the Economics of Rental Housing and Crime
… supply elasticities in local rental housing markets. The second chapter follows with an investigation of the impact that the evacuations on crime in the destination counties. The analyses in the first two chapters are conducted using data from American Community Survey and the Federal Bureau …
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Risk parity and other risk based portfolio allocation approaches in South African and international equity markets
… theory and find some evidence that levels of market concentration may impact the performance of risk parity portfolios across equity indices.
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Improving farmers' and consumers' welfare in agricultural supply chains via data-driven analytics and modeling : from theory to practice
… been launched to connect geographically isolated markets in many developing countries. This work is in close collaboration with the state government of Karnataka in India which launched the Unified Market Platform (UMP). Leveraging both public data and platform data, a difference-in-differences …
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A study of regulatory goals and controls: firm size in the savings and loan industry
… growth of very large firms, and the increase in market concentration that accompanies it, will add to the debate over the adequacy of the regulator's management of the industry. It must be demonstrable that very large firms assist the regulators in attaining some of their espoused goals, goals …
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Competition Law Between Old Goals and New Challenges. New tools for a ‘multi-value’ approach vis-à-vis: Digitalisation, Inequalities, and Climate Changes
… such as increasing income inequalities, raising market concentration rates and the even faster climate changes are topics that cannot be outside the academic analysis of the various policies. Therefore, if we try to answer at the question if competition law shall play a role in this context, the …
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Nonprofit Market Structure and Its Consequences
… comprised of three papers related to nonprofit market structure and its consequences. I begin with an essay that examines how the recent boom of nonprofit organizations affects giving using the context of the Combined Federal Campaign (CFC). I find that the nonprofit boom has not increased …
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Essays on the Effects of Public Policy
… three papers on the effects of public policy on market outcomes. In the first paper, I analyze the effects of trade liberalization on firm labor market power in Brazil. I find that while Brazil’s 1990s trade liberalization significantly lowered wages and increased labor market concentration, it …
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