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operating in the short run under systematically varied concentration and capacity conditions. The pricing of electricity is …
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Dramatic increases in concentration in the seed business, coupled with aggressive efforts to vertically integrate the …
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is one of the first attempts at a comprehensive analysis, and employsconcentration tables and concentration ratios. It is … process. Our researchrevealed that, by 2004, concentration in the retail food market was at a high level, considerably higher … berequired due to consumer, employment, and social considerations. The trend toward concentration requiresa shift in approach and …
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This study examines the conflicts arising from the requirements of the food retail chains and theirpossible solutions, based on an analysis of the foreign and domestic trade literature and on a domestic assessmentof 2008. Direct supplies from small-scale producers have future prospects only in...
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The dissertation tracks the media development and diversity policy positions of the SouthAfrican government with a particular focus on the establishment of the MediaDevelopment and Diversity Agency. It tracks the reasons for the reduction in theAgency’s funding and the curtailing of its...
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Few studies have examined the impact of portfolio concentration upon the realised volatility of stock index portfolios … concentration metrics for the FTSE 100 Index over the period from January 1984 through March 2003. In addition, the value weighted … concentration was at its highest level. Hence the findings of the study are consistent with the notion that the value weighted, and …
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the production of their inputs allows them to avoid transaction costs. Higher market concentration, a proxy of higher … are likely to trade, we construct a mill-specific concentration measure as a substitute to traditional regional … concentration measures. We also narrow our sample to mills producing free sheet paper, the most profitable paper grade in this …
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In this paper we re-examine empirically the Structure-Conduct-Performance relationship between concentration and … concentration does increase profitability, but only in geographically dispersed industries, suggesting that regional markets are an …
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We investigate the effects of market power, banking and bank-environment activities on profitability and stability (risk and returns) for a total of 1929 banks in 40 emerging and advanced economies over the sample period of 1999-2008. The model developed in this paper incorporates the...
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We investigate the effects of market power, banking and bank-environment activities on profitability and stability (risk and returns) for a total of 1929 banks in 40 emerging and advanced economies over the sample period of 1999-2008. The model developed in this paper incorporates the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009480842