Mixed Market Competition in a Quality Differentiated Duopoly Model An Approach to Banking Sector

This paper attempts to develop a theoretical framework to investigate the competitive implications of quality choices of financial institutions whereby they charge prices to consumers based on their willingness to pay for the service qualities in the mixed market scenario under vertical product differentiation model. Initially, it analyzes benchmark equilibrium solutions of monopoly and duopoly to establish the degree of quality differentiation between two private banks in an uncover market configuration. Further, it estimates the quality differentiation between private and public banks, and examines the interaction between two market structures keeping public bank as both leader and follower, and then measures the social welfare from different prospectives. The explicit operation of two stages Nash equilibrium game forecasted that public banks＇ monopoly seems to be still better than a private banking, and it is socially optimal. The outcome demonstrates a significant importance of vertical quality differentiation for policy implication in banking industry and provides an insight on the reasons of particular co-existence of public and private banking services in the specified location. In this context, it is concluded that the presence of public banks in banking industries is a crucial condition for obtaining the higher range of social welfare.     

我国资源衰退型城市“资源诅咒”的逆袭路径研究

我国资源衰退型城市经济增长乏力,在不同程度上陷入了"资源诅咒"困境,而成功地建立战略性新兴产业基地是破解"资源诅咒"的关键。目前,我国资源衰退型城市战略性新兴产业基地主要采用外生型和内生型发展模式,但两者的实践效果均不理想。依据我国资源衰退型城市的特点实施混合型发展模式,可以推动战略性新兴产业基地顺利地建成,以突破"资源诅咒"困境。     

煤炭工业混合所有制改革投资主体权益问题分析

对混合所有制的认识从偏向宏观走向侧重微观,体现了改革的深入和细化;产权理论和公司治理理论是思考混合所有制改革中投资主体权益问题的理论基础;从微观经济层面总结了煤炭工业企业所有制的变化历程;基于对理论、历史与现状的思考,分析了煤炭工业混合所有制改革中各方投资主体面临的权益问题,并提出了相应的解决对策。     

煤炭企业混合所有制改革产权制度初探

通过对我国42家煤炭上市公司的股权结构分析,发现32家国有煤炭上市公司国有股"一股独大"现象非常明显,10家非国有煤炭上市公司的股权虽然相当分散,但是并没有国有或公有制经济成分参与其中。为充分发挥混合所有制的高效率,建议国有煤炭企业将国有股比例降至40%左右,引进外资与民间资本比例至40%左右,设置20%左右的内部职工股。在国有煤炭企业进行混合所有制产权改革的过程中,可能会面临两个问题:一是企业经理层不按照市场规律经营企业,二是公有制产权主体与非公有制产权主体之间可能会产生冲突。     

国有煤炭企业发展混合所有制探讨

我国的煤炭企业中国有独资或国有控股企业占有很大比重,混合所有制发展不够充分,中共十八届三中全会再次强调了深化国有企业改革、发展混合所有制经济。如何深化国有煤炭企业改革,推进混合所有制经济,在市场的决定性作用中,加快国有煤炭企业转型发展,这是国有煤炭企业面临的重要课题。结合大同煤矿集团公司实际,就当前形势下国有煤炭企业发展混合所有制的必要性、发展混合所有制面临的障碍以及如何发展混合所有制等内容进行了剖析。     

Quality and Welfare in a Mixed Duopoly with Regulated Prices: The Case of a Public and a Private Hospital

Abstract. Hospital markets are often characterized by price regulation and the existence of different ownership types. Using a Hotelling framework, this paper analyses the effect of heterogeneous objectives of hospitals on quality differentiation, profits and overall welfare in a price‐regulated duopoly with exogenous symmetric locations. In contrast to other studies on mixed duopolies, this paper shows that, in this framework, privatization of the public hospital may increase overall welfare. This holds if the public hospital is similar to the private hospital or less efficient and competition is low. The main driving force is the single‐regulated price which induces under‐provision (over‐provision) of quality of the more (less) efficient hospital compared with the first best. However, if the public hospital is sufficiently more efficient and competition is fierce, a mixed duopoly outperforms both a private and a public duopoly due to an equilibrium price below (above) the price of the private (public) duopoly. This medium price discourages over‐provision of quality of the less efficient hospital and – together with the non‐profit objective – encourages an increase in quality of the more efficient public hospital.     

Privatizing Museum Services In Uk Local Authorities

This article investigates the extent to which ‘privatization’ has taken place in museum services provided by local authorities in Britain. Three aspects of privatization are examined: change in the legal status of museums to charitable trusts; contracting-in and buying-in private service providers for specific work; and market- and marketing-orientation. All of these have a resonance in new public management in general and are of increasing significance to the international museum community. In the empirical site chosen for this article, privatization has progressed in varying degrees in relation to the three areas concerned, but overall only to a limited extent despite central government's pressure promoting this policy. Reasons suggested for this gap between the political context and the findings are the distinctiveness in the institutional arrangement of policy and the nature of the service. A good understanding of a polrcy arena along these llnes is needed for effective policy application.     

Managing For Successful Customer Acquisition: An Exploration

Abstract

This paper explores how consumers select different peers in their social network when obtaining positive verses negative referrals, and the role of social cues in this selection process. An inductive framework incorporating a mixed method process was employed. Thirty in-depth interviews were used to understand how consumers activate specific peers when seeking referrals. First, participants mapped their peer networks and, second, debriefs were undertaken to understand how their peer networks were used across ten product categories. Our research identifies that the choice of peer when seeking referral information is conditional on the type of referral sought. Also, that the cues used by consumers when selecting the most appropriate peer differ depending on the type of referral sought. The different peer activation for these two types of referrals indicates a need to adopt strategies specific to the different referral types.     

改革开放以来混合所有制经济及其发展

改革开放以来,混合所有制经济在理论与实践中都得到了迅速发展,在公有制经济发展的同时,伴随着党对非公有制经济存在和发展的必然性认识的转变,带动了非公有制经济突飞猛进的发展。实践证明,混合所有制经济的发展是建设有中国特色社会主义经济的必然要求。