compare welfare effects of mergers between firms with the effects of merg-ers between nonprofits dominated by consumers, workers, suppliers, and pure donors respectively. I find that mergers both among firms and among most types of nonprofits do not increase welfare. Mergers among consumer-dominated

benchmark results for merging firms and then charac-terize welfare effects of mergers between nonprofits dominated by con-sumers, workers, suppliers, and pure donors. We find that mergers both among firms and among most types of nonprofits decrease welfare. Merg-ers among consumer-dominated nonprofits

and essential inputs to the low income consumers and communities in an uninterrupted manner. To be sure, where the local markets are oligopolistic and concentrated, there is evidence of anticompetitive conduct and collusive behavior by the new owners due to the dominant and price leadership role historically

Abstract Since their inception, a dominant characteristic of higher education institutions has been their reliance on the advantages conferred by geographic and political boundaries. However, emerging technologies and growing consumer power are challenging the status quo. The application

, and magazines to focused health campaigns targeting susceptible groups, consumers are bombarded with health messages produced by ongoing medical studies, government agencies, for-profit health and insurance firms, and community and public health non-profits. A Google search of "health" produced 939

.econstor.eu The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn is a local and virtual international research center and a place of communication between science, politics and business. IZA is an independent nonprofit organization supported by Deutsche Post Foundation. The center is associated with the University of Bonn

Corporate Governance determinants of voluntary disclosure and its effects on information asymmetry: an analysis for Iberian Peninsula listed companies.

to continuously acquire new ones. For example, in the first term of 2011, Zynga's acquisition costs were US$15 million, compared to a total marketing budget of US$40 million; the major source of the profit is from returning players, rather than from newly acquired players; the more engaged the consumer

, Minnesota, is the largest consumer-governed, nonprofit health care organization in the nation, providing care, coverage, research, and education to 1.25 million members and caring for over 500,000 patients in their HealthPartners care delivery system, which includes 70 clinics and three hospitals

(Goodall 2004) of this particular consumer tribe Observers tell us that the daily lives of human beings are structured with rituals (e.g. Only 1.7% of new motorcycle registrations in the United States were BMWs in 2000 (Motorcycle Industry Council 2001) with a very similar percentage for 2008 For people