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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"strategic complementarity"”.
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The effect of pre- and post-merger factors on the performance of mergers in Libyan government banks
… Libyan banking mergers, and the influence of strategic fit, organisational cultural fit, speed of integration, and effectiveness of integration on the performance of mergers among Libyan government banks. The main conceptual framework was based on three different schools of thoughts: strategic …
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Two Essays on the Distribution of Information Technology Infrastructure in the United States
… derive necessary conditions for the existence of strategic complementarity between them. We then perform statistical tests which do not reject the hypothesis of the existence of necessary conditions for the investment in modern telecommunications infrastructure to increase the marginal return of …
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The relationship between geographic proximity and strategic posture: a longitudinal study of the U.S. fiberoptics industry
… costs economics, economic geography, and strategic management. Specifically, tests are conducted to determine whether there is an association between establishments' geographic locations and the incidence of two collective strategies: strategic isomorphism and strategic complementarity. …
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Vertical product differentiation and competition in the supermarket industry
… namely by highlighting the distinctive nature of strategic complementarity. As such, I demonstrate that the VPD framework accords well with the combination of features observed in the supermarket industry, providing an accurate representation of the mechanisms sustaining its concentrated …
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Essays in experimental macroeconomics
… in a beauty-contest game characterized by strategic complementarity: A baseline in which the same shock hits the economy four times, and a treatment in which the shocks are heterogeneous. We find that convergence to equilibrium accelerates with each shock in both scenarios. We then run a …
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Subsidized housing developers in Madrid : cooperation or competition?
… analyzed at the boom and bust periods, but a strategic complementarity when analyzed as a single 10-year period. In the short term, a crowd-out effect exists between cooperatives and public companies, but in the long term there is a crowd-in effect. Although an analysis of the type and quality …
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Essays in Experimental Economics
… relies on 15 games, characterised by an explicit strategic structure -- ie strategic complementarity or substitutability. We find that subjects’ stated beliefs about the actions of their opponents are generally inconsistent with standard models of strategic thinking. Moreover, we observe that the …
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Essays in International Economics and Macroeconomics
… documented in the literature. Moreover, strategic complementarity between firms and the resulting higher-order optimism further strengthen my mechanism. Finally, I distinguish empirically my rational theory of optimism from behavioral theories by exploiting the difference in the degree of …
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Three essays on family structure and school dropout among adolescents
… characterize the peer effect of siblings on the strategic choices of the teenager. This dynamic model incorporates the attractiveness of imitating the behavior of the peers inside the family. The model measures the strategic complementarity between the choice of the teenager and the choice of his …
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Essays on informational frictions in macroeconomics and finance
… frequency of price adjustment; and the degree of strategic complementarity in pricing decisions. This result synthesizes the broader lessons of the pertinent literature. However, this synthesis provides only a partial view of the role of incomplete information: once one allows for more general …
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Three Essays on Dynamic Games with Incomplete Information and Strategic Complementarities
… in which the incomplete information and the strategic complementarities between players are important. Chapter 1 explains the topics discussed in the subsequent chapters and gives a brief survey on the literature. In Chapter 2, I revise a traditional global game model by dividing the …