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Consideration Sets and Competitive Marketing

Eliaz, Kfir; Spiegler, Ran - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

We study a market model in which competing firms use costly marketing devices to influence the set of alternatives … a function of the marketing devices employed by the firms. We examine the implications of this behavioral model in the … marketing devices and consumers’ conversion rates. …

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On the Strategic Use of Attention Grabbers

Eliaz, Kfir; Spiegler, Ran - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

When a firm decides which products to offer or put on display, it takes into account the products' ability to attract attention to the brand name as a whole. Thus, the value of a product to the firm emanates from the consumer demand it directly meets, as well as the indirect demand it generates...

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Firms Agglomeration and Unions

Picard, Pierre M; Toulemonde, Eric - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

This Paper develops a model in which the interaction between product market imperfections, transportation costs, unions …

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Unions and Innovation: A Survey of the Theory and Empirical Evidence

Menezes-Filho, Naercio; Van Reenen, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

This Paper surveys the economic literature on the impact of trade unions on innovation. There are many theoretical … routes through which unions may have an effect on innovation, for example through their effects on relative factor prices … that trade unions will ‘hold up’ firms by expropriating sunk R&D (research and development) investments through demanding …

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Indeterminacy in a Finance Constrained Unionized Economy

Lloyd-Braga, Teresa; Modesto, Leonor - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

We introduce labour market imperfections (i.e. unions and the existence of a wage floor) in a finance … decreases with union power. We also find that unions increase simultaneously steady-state employment, capital accumulation and …

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Ten Years of Mrs. T.

Bean, Charles R; Symons, James - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1989

We argue that the 1970s were characterized by attempts to maintain a cooperative, low unemployment equilibrium in the face of considerable union power, through use of incomes policies and neo-corporatist machinery. The 1980s saw a shift away from this, towards direct measures to limit union...

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Regret and Jubilation in Union Wage Bargaining

Beenstock, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1987

A theoretical model of collective wage bargaining is developed in which unions set wages and employers decide …

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The Effects of Migration on the Relative Demand of Skilled versus Unskilled Labour: Evidence from Spain

Dolado, Juan J.; Duce, Rosa; Jimeno, Juan F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

In this paper we construct a simple model of the effects of immigration on the labour market outcomes of natives. In this model, skilled and unskilled labour are substitutes, immigrants are complementary to the former, and wages are determined by bargaining. We are able to prove that,...

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Why People Don't Find Work

Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993

unemployment: labour unions, supply shocks combined with real wage rigidity, and automation and trade combined with real wage …

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Search, Concave Production, and Optimal Firm Size

Smith, Eric - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

This paper presents a simple search and bargaining economy in which firms use concave production. Because a firm and worker negotiate over the worker's marginal productivity, the firm's wage is a function of its labour force. Reacting to this wage function, firms choose an excessively large and...

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