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Cut off from new competition: Threat of entry and health care quality

Brüll, Eduard; Rostam-Afschar, Davud; Schlenker, Oliver - 2024

We study how the threat of entry affects service quantity and quality of general prac- titioners (GPs). We leverage Germany's needs-based primary care planning system, in which the likelihood of new GPs reduces by 20 percentage points when primary care coverage exceeds a cut-off. We compile...

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Backwards integration and strategic delegation

Hunold, Matthias; Röller, Lars-Hendrik; Stahl, Konrad - 2012

all firms compete in prices. With an acquisition, downstream firms internalize the effects of their actions on their … backwards ownership leads to increasing downstream prices and is more profitable, as long as competition is sufficiently … prices. All results are sustained when upstream suppliers are allowed to charge two part tariffs. …

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Backwards integration and strategic delegation

Hunold, Matthias; Röller, Lars-Hendrik; Stahl, Konrad - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012

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Unbundling, regulation and pricing: Evidence from electricity distribution

Heim, Sven; Krieger, Bastian; Liebensteiner, Mario - 2018

Unbundling of vertically integrated utilities has become an integral element in the regulation of network industries and has been implemented in many jurisdictions. The idea of separating the network, as the natural monopoly, from downstream retailing, which may be exposed to competition, is...

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Welcome on board? Appointment dynamics of women as directors

Schoonjans, Eline; Hottenrott, Hanna; Buchwald, Achim - 2023

Increasing the participation of women in top-level corporate boards is high on the agenda of policymakers. Yet, we know little about director appointment dynamics and the drivers and impediments of women appointments. This study builds on organizational and group-level behavior theories and...

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How do managers form their expectations about working from home? Survey experiments on the perception of productivity

Erdsiek, Daniel; Rost, Vincent - 2023

The recent shift towards working from home (WFH) has far-reaching implications for social and economic outcomes. While firms are gatekeepers for the ongoing diffusion of flexible work arrangements, there is little evidence on how firms decide to offer WFH. We leverage two survey experiments...

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Minimum wages and competition: The case of the German roofing sector

Kraft, Kornelius; Rammer, Christian; Gottschalk, Sandra - 2012

This paper analyses the effects of minimum wages on competition in the German roofing sector. The case is particularly interesting since this sector is faced with a uniform minimum wage despite significant regional disparities in productivity and wages. As a control industry we take the plumbing...

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Innovationen, Anlageinvestitionen und immaterielle Investitionen

Rammer, Christian; Köhler, Christian - 2012

Dieser Beitrag untersucht die Beziehung verschiedener Konzepte von investiven Ausgaben in Unternehmen, ihre Verbindung zu Innovationen und die Faktoren, die Innovations- und Investitionsentscheidungen von Unternehmen beeinflussen. Neben dem traditionellen Investitionsbegriff, der sich...

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Mass customization with additive manufacturing: Blessing or curse for society?

Schwierzy, Julian; Wenzel, Tobias - 2024

product prices. In contrast, the price of customized products will exceed the price level of the initial market. These price …

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Knowledge Flows and R&D Co-operation: Firm-level Evidence from Germany

Schmidt, Tobias - 2005

This paper analyzes the determinants of R&D co-operation among German manufacturing firms. Using firm level data from the Third Community Innovation Survey from Germany, we focus on the role of spillovers in explaining R&D cooperation. We also investigate firms? decisions to cooperate with...

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