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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"monopoly power"”.
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Risk, Returns to Scale and Monopoly Power in Horizontal Mergers: Theory and Evidence
… A multi-period model of the firm incorporating monopoly power and returns to scale is used to relate microeconomic variables to capital market variables. A new measure, combining the theoretical factors, is derived from simple accounting and financial management ratios. The empirical results …
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The Determinants of Tobin's Q Ratio and an Evaluation of Sfas 33 Data (Monopoly Power, Growth Potential, Valuation)
… examine the relationships of systematic risk to monopoly power and growth potential.
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Do private water tankers in Bangalore exhibit "mafia-like" behavior?
… questions: 1) Do private water tankers exhibit monopoly power, and 2) Do private water tanker prices vary depending on the characteristics of the customers they serve? Evidence collected in July-August 2014 and January 2015 indicates that tankers do not operate in an anti-competitive manner and …
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The Adoption of Genetically Modified Organisms in Uruguay's Agriculture: An Ex-Ante Assessment of Potential Benefits
… the same time reducing the potential losses that monopoly power creates .
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Driving toward monopoly : regulating autonomous mobility platforms as public utilities
… about the progress of AV technology and its power to positively impact society. Stakeholders across sectors are expecting a future of autonomous electric fleets, but have divergent attitudes toward the regulation needed to facilitate its implementation. I demonstrate that, given the immense …
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Prospects for Liberian iron ores considering shifting patterns of trade in the world iron ore industry.
… is evidenced in the form both of monopsony power exercised by some buyers in the Pacific Basin over intra-regional (e.g., Australian) and extra-regional (e.g., Brazilian, Liberian) producers and monopoly power permitting modest rents to be collected by some producers in Africa, including …
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South Africa's external relations with Britain and the Commonwealth, 1945-1956.
… Party with its doctrine of apartheid into power, tended to isolate South Africa. In the case of Britain, this tendency was counteracted by a desire to hold the Commonwealth together, to draw economic and strategic strength from a close association with South Africa, to resist the expansion …
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The role of special districts in the efficient provision of local public services
… growth restrictions are a means of enhancing the monopoly power of existing local governmental jurisdictions. For policy purposes, it is concluded that a legal framework that permits the creation and dissolution of special districts by the groups of individuals served by them is most conducive to …
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The institutional framework of community formation: the law and economics of municipal incorporation in California
… of existing governmental units increase their monopoly power, and provide themselves with the tool to stabilize the formation of a market-sharing cartel. These two hypotheses are tested by using data from California, as this state provides a useful setting for a positive analysis of alternative …
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Three essays on physician pricing
… services. I find that requiring physicians with monopoly power to post all or some of their prices has no effect on the total patient cost associated with physician consultations, including the cost of untreated disease. If physicians compete in a Bertrand fashion, then requiring a physician to …
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Transgenic Rice in Asia: A General Equilibrium Assessment of Potential Welfare Effects and Regional Distribution
… environments for both paddy and seed sectors; monopoly power is included in the model as a markup tax instrument when private firms sell herbicide resistant rice seed; and private rents can be transferred between regions and change income computation in the model. Equivalent variation measures …
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Essays on information gathering in principal-agent contracts
… It is shown that, though the principal has monopoly power and can force the single agent to his reservation utility, having several agents compete for the contract increases the principal's payoff.
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Essays on informational frictions in macroeconomics and finance
… constraints on firm-level investment introduce a powerful two-way feedback between the financial market and the real economy. On one hand, real economic activity forms the basis for asset dividends. On the other hand, asset prices affect collateral value, which in turn determines the ability of …
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Optimal Taxation and Innovation in the Presence of Externalities
… policies to efficiently reduce pollution. Market power and scarcity rents, as other kinds of externalities, can bias technological change in the natural resource sector. The second chapter of my thesis is titled “The Upstream Bias in Technological Change with Exhaustible Resources”. This paper …