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    Application on Game Theory: Cement Industry in Egypt-Arabian Cement Company
    (openscience, 2018-09) Sherif El Adawy, Nadeen; Mohamed, Doaa; Salman Abdou, Doaa M
    top Share Download full-text PDF Application on Game Theory: Cement Industry in Egypt-Arabian Cement Company Article (PDF Available) in International Journal of Business, Economics and Management 6(3):49-56 · September 2018 with 782 Reads  Cite this publication Doaa Mohamed Nadeen Sherif El Adawy Modern Sciences and Arts University Doaa M. Salman Abdou 14.62Modern Sciences and Arts University Abstract This research paper explores the cement industry in Egypt by overlooking the history of the industry and taking the Arabian cement company as an example. The cement industry in Egypt is performing price discrimination as a result of the high market power that the firms have. To understand more about price discrimination and game theory, a literature review has been made in the paper about is price discrimination, the types of price discrimination, game theory, strategies of game theory and relation between price discrimination and game theory. Last but not least, a case study about the industry in Egypt is made during the period of 2013-2017, and it was concluded that the cement market in Egypt is an oligopoly and third degree price discrimination is done by competitors in the market and game theory strategies are applied.
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    Signals and Policies Required for Informal Markets: Evidence from Egypt & China
    (open science, 2018-09) Salman Abdou, Doaa M.; Sherif, Nadeen; Sherif El Adawy, Nadeen
    This paper is investigating the informal market in Egypt and China. First, it will go through the main concept of informal markets and the four main schools of thoughts, then the history of informal sector in Egypt and China since the 1970s' and the causes and effects of such phenomena. Also, it will go through the effect of informal sector on economic growth of a country and the characteristics of informal sector in any country. The paper suggests some solutions to overcome the problems of informal sector. The paper concluded that there are negative relation between informal sector and economic growth, and that developing countries often have bigger informal sector than developed countries and the poverty and unemployment play vital role in determining the size of the informal sector in an economy.