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Showing 1 to 20 of 173 for “"Market Power"”.
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REITs & market power : an analysis of market power theory and antitrust policy
… there is tremendous pressure from the public markets for REITs to continue to grow. This has lead the management of REITs to seek alternative growth strategies. These strategies include cost economies of scale, branding, growth of non-real estate related revenue, vertical integration, and …
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REITs & market power : are public market pricing market power strategy? : an analysis of the apartment, retail and office sectors
… there is tremendous pressure from the public markets for REITs to continue to grow. This has lead the management of REITs to seek alternative growth strategies. These strategies include cost economies of scale, branding, growth of non-real estate related revenue, vertical integration, and …
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Market power estimation in the peruvian brewing industry
… it offers an attractive scope for evaluating market power. Following the structure-conduct-performance approach, a nonlinear simultaneous equation model is estimated to measure the degree of market power and to analyse its shifts as the industry undergoes structural changes on a monthly basis …
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Market power effects on health care workers’ wages
Los economistas laborales poco a poco se han interesado por el rol de la concentración de mercado en los salarios. Por medio de una base de datos única que cubre todas las profesiones de la salud en Colombia y bajo el supuesto de que la oferta laboral es proporcional a la demanda, se calcula la …
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The regulation of internet interconnection : assessing network market power
… metrics to help gauge a network provider's market power. Since Internet interconnection agreements are typically not published publicly, policymakers must instead rely on proxy metrics and inferred interconnection relationships. Alessio D'Ignazio and Emanuele Giovannetti have attempted to …
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Three essays on market power in Chile's electricity industry
This thesis examines the incentives to exercise market power that generators would face and the different strategies that they would follow if all electricity supplies in Chile were traded in an hourly-unregulated spot market. The industry is modeled as a Cournot duopoly with a competitive fringe; …
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Product Differentiation, Collusion, and Empirical Analyses of Market Power
… in contrast to previous studies, I focus on a market which is simultaneously vertically and horizontally differentiated. To achieve this objective, vertical differentiation is incorporated into an otherwise standard Hotelling framework. The ensuing mixed model of differentiation shows how the …
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Market Power and Regulatory Failure in the Montana Wholesale Electricity Market
This work investigates market power and regulatory failures in the Montana wholesale electrical market after the implementation of deregulation in 1997. It provides a review of the development of the Montana wholesale electrical market, federal and state market power regulation, economic theory, …
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Market Power and Regulatory Failure in the Montana Wholesale Electricity Market
This work investigates market power and regulatory failures in the Montana wholesale electrical market after the implementation of deregulation in 1997. It provides a review of the development of the Montana wholesale electrical market, federal and state market power regulation, economic theory, …
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Market Power of Digital Platforms: An Investigation of the Online Networking Market
… growth. The platform’s business model—two-sided market—has established more efficient, even costless marketplaces for business and consumers. However, the largest digital platforms’ incredible number of users and resources and their dominant position in the market have raised severe antitrust …
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Essays on Productive Efficiency, Trade, and Market Power: Evidence from African Manufacturing Firms
… firms, and effect of liberalisation policies on market power and market imperfections. The thesis combines two main strands in economics literature in accessing the three main themes of the papers. The first strand regards methodological approaches to estimate a production function from which …
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The effect of intermediary market power on grain prices in India and Brazil
… in Bihar, India and Parana, Brazil. As a formal market with high transparency, low market power by intermediaries, and explicit quality standards and premia, Parana is a reference point for how incentives can function in a small-holder grain market. In particular, I investigate the role that high …
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Data as a Competitive Resource: Essays on Market Power, Data Sharing, and Data Portability
… important competitive resource in digital online markets. As a result, the access and availability of data can be the basis for a competitive advantage. This thesis analyzes the role and competitive effects of data in digital markets and contributes to an improved understanding of data as a …
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Optimal Trade Policy for a Country With Market Power: The Case of Brazil's Coffee
This study has two major objectives. The first is to identify the major characteristic of the world coffee economy. The second objective is to build a dynamic normative model for the Brazilian coffee policy.
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Market power and transportation price formation: Theory and an application to the captive shipper problem
… cross-hauling. Measures developed from the market equilibrium conditions identify whether mill, uniform or discriminatory transportation pricing is the dominant type of price information. Other measures are derived which allow us to differentiate between price-setting and quantity-setting …
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An exploration of the effects of data aggregation and other factors on empirical estimates of market power
… the sensitivity of empirical estimates of market power obtained from econometric conjectural variations studies to the level data aggregation used for the analysis. In addition, the sensitivity of the results to model specification is also explored. The focus of this study is on measurement …
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Performance of Zambian Commercial Banks in the Post-Liberalisation Period: Evidence on Cost Efficiency, Competition and Market Power
… policy question regarding the banks' exercise of market power and the low degree of competition. Using a richly assembled panel data set obtained from the Bank of Zambia on individual banks from 1998 to 2006, the thesis utilises theoretically sound methodologies in addressing these research …
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Predicting the Presence of Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) on Top Management Teams and the Moderating Influence of CMO Presence on the Relationship Between Firm Visibility, Market Power, and Industry Orientation and Firm Performance
… have attempted to become more consumer and market responsive by adopting industry conventions, such as appointing a chief marketing officer (CMO) to the top management team (TMT). However, scholarly research on the presence or absence of a CMO, and the relationship between the presence of a …
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