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Higher education, like any other commodity or service, has been viewed in a variety of economic frameworks. Little of this work, however, appears to have made any effort to define carefully the boundaries of the relevant market for higher education, which is the subject of this particular...
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In the absence of an effective antitrust law, both fare wars and price collusion have been pervasive in China’s airline markets, causing concern for both airlines and consumers. A study of monthly airfare data from 2002 to 2004 confirms that fare wars occur periodically, as well as price...
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The level and nature of competition in supermarket retailing in Australia has beenhotly debated as a policy issue in recent times. The creeping acquisitions of smallergroups by Coles and Woolworths have led to several investigations amid claims thatconsumers will be disadvantaged by the growth...
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This paper examines the persistence of cartel behaviour in Australia using evidence gathered from 1901 to 1939, when interest in cartels was intense, and academic studies from the 1950s and 1960s, when modern antitrust legislation was introduced. The aim is not to identify long-term cartels,...
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Australia, Canada, Germany, and the United States experienced a substantial decline in undergraduate degrees in economics from 1992 through 1996, followed immediately by a modest recovery. This cycle does not conform to overall degree trends, shifts in the gender composition of undergraduate...
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Higher education, like any other commodity or service, has been viewed in a variety of economic frameworks. Little of this work, however, appears to have made any effort to define carefully the boundaries of the relevant market for higher education, which is the subject of this particular...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703607
In previous work (Feinberg and Round, 2005), little evidence of share-price response to Australian price-fixing investigations was found. However, these investigations often involve a small part of a company’s operations and antitrust penalties have tended to be relatively small; in fact, some...
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The level and nature of competition in supermarket retailing in Australia has been hotly debated as a policy issue in recent times. The creeping acquisitions of smaller groups by Coles and Woolworths have led to several investigations amid claims that consumers will be disadvantaged by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009398591
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