Sökning: "Yardstick competition"
Hittade 5 avhandlingar innehållade orden Yardstick competition.
1. Essays on Political Representation, Electoral Accountability and Strategic Interactions
Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of an introduction and four self-contained essays.Essay 1 (with Matz Dahlberg and Eva Mörk) investigates political representation by exploring the relationship between citizens' preferences and the preferences of their elected representatives. LÄS MER
2. Empirical Essays on Procurement and Regulation
Sammanfattning : Essay 1: This paper reports the results of an empirical analysis of the effect of competitive tendering on road operation and maintenance expenses in Sweden. Contrasts of procurement expenses between operation and maintenance contracts let in competitive tendering and similar sole-sourced contracts indicate that competitive tendering reduces procurement expenses by 22-27 percent. LÄS MER
3. Strategic Interactions among Swedish Local Governments
Sammanfattning : Essay 1 (with Matz Dahlberg) investigates if local governments react on the welfare benefit levels in neighbouring jurisdictions when setting their own benefit levels. The IV estimates indicate that there exists a "race-to-the-bottom" and that the effect is economically as well as statistically significant. LÄS MER
4. The Costs of Legal Certainty : A Forensically-Informed Methodology on How to Identify the Relevant Costs in Exclusionary Abuse Cases
Sammanfattning : This dissertation examines the forensic relationship between unilateral price practices and prima facie exclusionary abuse(s) under Article 102 TFEU. The research aim is to ascertain relevant cost benchmarks that can be used to determine the legal qualification of a dominant firm’s price practices. LÄS MER
5. Asymmetric Information and The Production of Health
Sammanfattning : The common theme of this thesis is the analysis of asymmetric information when applied to the market for health care production. The thesis consists of six more or less independent papers and an introduction to the thesis were purpose and methodology are stated (part one). Part two is an investigation into the pricing of pharmaceuticals in Sweden. LÄS MER