Can An Anti-Dumping Policy Be Substituted For Predatory Pricing?

Employee Poaching: Why It Can Be Predatory

Can no anti - trust policy be better than some anti - trust policy ?

This paper examines how the market structure is likely to evolve in a situation of multi-stage oligopolistic production, and the implications for anti-trust policy. The decision to merge across or within stages of production is treated as endogenous. It is shown that when firms at a particular stage of production are relatively dominant, simultaneous merger decisions are conducive to competitiv...

Can Industrial Policy Be Good Policy

Can industrial policy be market-ensuring (e.g. via antitrust or enforcement of property rights) and market-conforming (non-distorting)? Can it provide a political second-best solution by creating a smaller market distortion to prevent a larger one that results from political ferment? This paper explores issues of the definition of industrial policy, discusses market failure vs. government failu...

Knowing Afghanistan: Can there be an end to the saga?

War on terrorism, as the motto which formed the cornerstone of global policies of former     neo-conservative administration of the United States, is increasingly becoming ineffective in Afghanistan with the dreaded consequence of spilling over into Pakistan. This inevitable consequence of War on    Terrorism in Afghanistan has brought the West face to face with the ‘nest of terrorism’ that CIA...

an investigation about the appropriate stochastic modeling framework for agricultural insurance pricing

با توجه به اینکه بیمه محصولات کشاورزی در ایران بیشتر جنبه ای حمایتی دارد و خسارات گزارش شده عموما بیش از حق بیمه های دریافت شده است، در این پایان نامه به جهت تعیین قیمت بیمه محصولات کشاورزی (گندم دیم) از فرآیندهای نوفه شلیک به عنوان مدلی مناسب استفاده شده است. بر اساس داده های صندوق بیمه کشاورزی از خسارات اعلام شده در سال زراعی 1388-1389 گندم دیم، در این پایان نامه حق بیمه خالص و ناخالص این محص...