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From the Informal to the Formal Sector: Micro-enterprises in a Developing Economy – Research in Progress
Dalglish, Carol L. - 2007
Small and micro-enterprises play a significant part in most economies.However, in developing countries these enterprises have tended to be looked at from a development, or poverty alleviation perspective, rather than as potentially growing businesses. This paper explores the possibility of...
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Market Concentration in banking sector of Serbia: decomposition of the Changes in 2016–2021
Bukvić, Rajko - 2023
On the basis of five balance variables in bank balances (total assets, deposits, capital, operating income, and loans), the Hirschman–Herfindahl indices for period 2016–2021 are calculated. The indices values are decomposed by the Bajo and Salas approach, based on the fact that the...
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Цифровая экономика и развитие сельских территорий (на примере Сербии)
Bukvić, Rajko; Nikolenko, Polina; Bocharov, Vladimir - 2024
Russian: Основы использования ИКТ в Сербии уже заложены, но электронный бизнес-процесс пока не сильно развит. Системных исследований влияния Интернета и ИКТ на...
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Complements and Substitutes in Sequential Auctions: The Case of Water Auctions
Donna, Javier; Espin-Sanchez, Jose - 2017
We study sequential auctions in which bidders demand multiple units. We collect a novel data set on sequential water auctions for the empirical study. Although water units are identical, two features from the empirical setting create a trade-off whereby units of water end up being complements or...
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Endogenous targeted pricing with vertical structure
Masuyama, Ryo - 2024
Targeted pricing is an aggressive strategy that steals demand from rivals. Previous studies have shown that a firm prefers targeted pricing to uniform pricing when another supply chain is vertically integrated and thus its downstream firm purchases an input at a constant price. This study...
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A cross-sectional analysis of growth and profit rate distribution: the Spanish case
Vidal-Tomás, David; Ruiz-Buforn, Aba; Blanco-Arroyo, Omar - 2020
We analyse the time evolution of the empirical cross-sectional distribution of firms profit and growth rates. In particular, we analyse the conditional properties of the empirical distributions depending on the size of the firms and business cycle phase. In order to do so, we employ the Laplace...
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The dominance of reputation in continuous time: Experimental insights from a market entry game
Beck, Dominik - 2024
I construct a continuous-time market entry game to experimentally investigate whether continuous-time interaction … certain threshold in order to enter the market, while the incumbent can deter entry to influence the entrant’s decision. In … continuous time. Through frequent and endogenous action changes, the incumbent is able to send more and clearer entry …
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Credit cooperatives: Market structure, competition, and conduct. Exploring the case of Paraguay
Schneider, Andreas - 2020
Measures of concentration and competition in the financial sector are important to determine public policies. However, cooperatives, and in particular in the context of small developing countries are largely ignored in economic literature. The empirical analysis is descriptive due to data...
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Diversification: towards a new paradigm for Africa’s development
Ben Hammouda, Hakim; Karingi, Stephen; Njuguna, Angelica; … - 2006
This paper is articulated around the following chapters. After this introduction, the first chapter will underscore Africa’s development stakes. This analysis will enable us to tackle the problem of modernizing and diversifying the productive fabric of African economies. The second chapter...
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The origins of American industrial success: Evidence from the US portland cement industry
Prentice, David - 2008
rise of the industry from the 1890s. However, the results of a structural econometric analysis of entry suggests geological …
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