. Combining legal research and qualitative data allowed general conclusions to be drawn with regard to the quality assessment of …

Consumers underestimation of the quality of remanufactured products is a barrier for remanufacturers. Online reviews … provide quality signals to consumers unaware of remanufactured products. To explore whether remanufacturers produce higher … quality products to improve their review ratings, considering the quality signalling effect of online reviews, a closed …

National Health Service (NHS) are influenced by the waiting times at neighboring hospitals. Recognizing these interdependencies … patient access. Methods We utilized patient-level data from all elective surgeries conducted in Portuguese NHS hospitals to … spatial lag model to examine the potential strategic interactions between hospitals concerning their waiting times. Results …

Trade Solution (WITS), this paper presents estimates of the effects of import competition and distance to the technological … competition depends on the firms distance to the technological frontier. The estimates suggest that the lower the foreign … competition and the greater the productivity gap, the lower the probability of firms engaging in innovation. In contrast, when a …

) Competition increases the chances of using crowdfunding compared to the monopoly case; (5) A non-monotonic relationship exists …

for competition in the consolidated banking sector. The financial crisis of 2008 brought with it the need to proceed with …