Rational disinvestment

Disinvestment and Bank Competition

We address the questions of disinvestment (partial privatization) and entry in the context of quantity competition between a partially privatized public bank and a private bank. We find that social welfare improves with entry only when the private banks are more efficient than the public bank. We also determine socially optimum degree of disinvestment and entry.

Notes on healthcare disinvestment

Objectives. Beyond the current economic crisis, the Spanish National Health System (SNHS) has a problem of long-term sustainability that has its roots in changes in the morbidity patterns with the onset of chronic diseases and the acceleration of technological change, and with the rapid incorporation of new and expensive technologies. The aim of this paper is to explore the role of low value te...

Lumpy Capacity Investment and Disinvestment Dynamics

Capacity addition and withdrawal decisions are among the most important strategic decisions made by …rms in oligopolistic industries. In this paper, we develop and analyze a fully dynamic model of an oligopolistic industry with lumpy capacity and lumpy investment/disinvestment. We use our model to suggest answers to two questions. First, what economic factors facilitate preemption races? Second...

Tackling disinvestment in health care services

Spousal violence and paternal disinvestment among Tsimane' forager-horticulturalists.

OBJECTIVES We develop and test a conceptual model of factors influencing the likelihood of physical wife abuse. The paternal disinvestment model emphasizes that spousal conflict over resource use results from men's attempts to increase individual fitness at a cost to the family (e.g., through pursuit of extramarital affairs). We propose that men use violence to control women's responses to the ...