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Market power in the European dairy industry
Cechura, Lukas; Žáková Kroupová, Zdenka; Hockmann, … - In: Agris on-line Papers in Economics and Informatics 7 (2015) 4, pp. 39-47
output milk-processing market. However, the abuse of oligopoly market power is not large on average, despite the fact that we … (about 10 %) with considerably high oligopoly market power. …
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Director's Incentives in Japan and the UK
Kubo, Katsuyuki - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 70 (2001) 2, pp. 228-232
As it is widely believed that the behaviour of large Japanese companies is different from that of their British counterparts, hypothesises that the directors in both countries may have different financial incentives. The research estimates the determinants of executive compensation, using the...
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Dinámica de inversión y competencia en generación eléctrica en un escenario de liberalización en el Perú: La importancia de los contratos de largo plazo
Rivasplata Ramírez, Arnold Rúben; García Carpio, … - In: Revista de Métodos Cuantitativos para la Economía y … 28 (2019), pp. 224-242
different market structures (monopoly, oligopoly with competitive fringe, oligopoly (Cournot) and perfect competition) on the …
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Power, rent extraction, and executive compensation
Bebchuk, Lucian; Fried, Jesse - In: CESifo Forum 03 (2002) 3, pp. 23-28
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La teoría de juegos conductual, el dilema del viajero alternativo y la maximización de pagos
Moro, Rodrigo; Freidin, Esteban; Tohmé, Fernando; … - In: Estudios de Economía 38 (2011) 2, pp. 457-473
Within the area of Behavioral game theory, we focus on a specific context, namely, on a game we called the Alternative …
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On the effects of selective below-cost pricing in a vertical differentiation model
Colombo, Stefano - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 3 (2009) 2009-33, pp. 1-13
We analyse the effects of predation in a vertical differentiation model, where the high-quality incumbent is able to price discriminate while the low-quality entrant sets a uniform price. The incumbent may act as a predator, that is, it may price below its marginal costs on a subset of consumers...
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Fund managers - Why the best might be the worst: On the evolutionary vigor of risk-seeking behavior
Witte, Björn-Christopher - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 6 (2012) 2012-24, pp. 1-29
. As a practical example, the professional competition between fund managers is considered. To explore how different … evolutionary model is developed. Using a simple genetic algorithm, two attributes of virtual fund managers evolve: the share of … does not necessarily select managers with efficient portfolios. These results underline the institutional need for the …
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Gender differences and dynamics in competition: The role of luck
Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria - In: Quantitative Economics 5 (2014) 2, pp. 351-376
In a real effort experiment with repeated competition we find striking differences in how the work effort of men and women responds to previous wins and losses. For women, losing per se is detrimental to productivity, but for men, a loss impacts negatively on productivity only when the prize at...
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Competition and networks of collaboration
Roketskiy, Nikita - In: Theoretical Economics 13 (2018) 3, pp. 1077-1110
I develop a model of collaboration between tournament participants in which agents collaborate in pairs, and an … coordination; they value collaboration with others and higher tournament rankings. I use von Neumann-Morgenstern stable sets as a …
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The shape of luck and competition in winner-take-all tournaments
Ryvkin, Dmitry; Drugov, Mikhail - In: Theoretical Economics 15 (2020) 4, pp. 1587-1626
In winner-take-all tournaments, agents' performance is determined jointly by effort and luck, and the top performer is rewarded. We study the impact of the ''shape of luck'' -- the details of the distribution of performance shocks -- on incentives in such settings. We are concerned with the...
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