Moonbuggy competition

Outsourcing through Three-dimensional Competition

In this paper, we study an outsourced supply chain consisting of one buyer and two suppliers in which the buyer outsources manufacturing of a physical product to two competing suppliers. The suppliers compete for the buyers' demands share, and the buyer allocates the demands to the competing suppliers based on three-dimensional allocation functions. We consider two certain types of allocation f...

State Capacity, Capital Mobility, and Tax Competition

Abstract The theory of international tax competition suggests that governments attempt to attract mobile capital bases by undercutting the foreign capital tax rate. An analysis of the role that state capacity plays in tax policymaking under international pressures is, however, missing. The central contribution of our study is to highlight the importance of the interaction between state capaci...

Competition in Healthcare: Good, Bad or Ugly?

The role of competition in healthcare is much debated. Despite a wealth of international experience in relation to competition, evidence is mixed and contested and the debate about the potential role for competition is often polarised. This paper considers briefly some of the reasons for this, focusing on what is meant by “competition in healthcare” and why it is more valuable to think about th...

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Recent interest has centred on the role of the Left Inferior Frontal Gyrus (LIFG) in the processes that operate on conceptual knowledge. Thompson-Schill et al (1997) have proposed that the LIFG is involved in selection of appropriate information among competing semantic alternatives rather than retrieval of semantic information. This hypothesis was supported by an fMRI study, in which LIFG acti...

Membrane Research in a Global Context Requires Collaboration, not Competition!