Market structure and competition in the healthcare industry

The relationship between competition law and capital market in Iran

stock market is run by special regulations. accordingly, analyzing the issues about the relation between the competition law and capital market such as stock market officials and their boundaries in the context of setting, controlling and  enforcing rules, the generality or specificity of such rules, the controllability of stock market in comparison to the general competition rules and the stat...

Property Rights and Strategy: Market Structure and Competition in the Brazilian Soybean Seed Industry

Recent studies indicate that strong systems of property rights are not a necessary condition for the operation of the soybean seed market in the Americas (Wright; Pardey, 2006; Endres; Goldsmith, 2007). These studies are based on a dichotomy. The North – represented by the U.S. – is a strong institutional environment in which agrobiotechnology firms adopt an optimal strategy, setting technologi...

Bank Competition and Risk-taking in the Iranian Banking Industry

Abstract: The banking industry is one of the main sectors of the economy of any country, that its health is a necessary condition to play a positive role in the economic development of that country. The health of the banking system is assessed by the financial stability criterion, which is evaluated by various risk-taking indexes. On the other hand, the banks risk-taking is affected by various...

Market Structure and Price Adjustment in the Iranian Tea Market

Spatial Competition and Market Definition in the Nursing Home Industry

The degree of competition in the nursing home industry has profound implications for regulations, quality and pricing decisions. This paper presents a model of spatial competition in the nursing home industry to investigate how consumer preferences over location can affect the substitutability and the degree of competition between geographically differentiated nursing homes. A random coefficien...