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Low Quality Leadership in Vertically Differentiated Duopoly
Kuhn, Michael - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University …
According to the business literature a firm's competitive position is determined by the nature of the market. In a 'premium' market, profit leadership falls to firms of- fering high quality, whereas in a 'value' market, it falls to low quality providers, which on grounds of a cost advantage...
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To Block or not to Block? Network Competition when Skype enters the Mobile Market
Datta, Bipasa; Lo, Yu-Shan - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2013
) attempt to block Skype's entry on their networks, some actually welcome it even if it apparently conflicts with their … symmetric (where Skype's entry is either accommodated or blocked by both MNOs) or asymmetric (where only one has the incentive …-off) relative to the one where entry is blocked. …
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A Simple Business-Cycle Model with Schumpeterian Features
Costa, Luis F; Dixon, Huw D - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University …
regulates the type of entry that dominates in the economy: new products or more competition in existing industries. Considering …
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Entry Dynamics, Capacity Utilisation and Productivity in a Dynamic Open Economy.
Aloi, Marta; Dixon, Huw - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University …
defines an optimal firm size. Changes to the number of firms is subject to adjustment costs, so that the entry dynamics is …
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On the Crowding-Out Effects of Tax-Financed Charitable Contributions by the Government
Krause, Alan - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2011
An important question in the literature on charitable contributions is the extent to which tax-financed contributions by the government crowd out private contributions. This paper examines a simple model of charitable contributions in which there exist both warm-glow and public good motives for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008783906
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Priming Cooperation in Social Dilemma Games
Drouvelis, M; Metcalfe, R; Powdthavee, N - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2010
Research on public goods mainly focuses its attention on the ability of incentives, beliefs and group structure to affect behaviour in social dilemma interactions. This paper investigates the pure effects of a rather subtle mechanism on social preferences in a one-shot linear public good game....
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Are physician fees responsive to competition?
Choné, P.; Coudin, É.; Pla, A. - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2014
We assess the extent to which specialist doctors respond to local competition when setting prices (including extra-billings) in a fee-for-service system. We use an exhaustive panel data set to estimate physician reaction functions, exploiting exogenous changes in medical density and labor supply...
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A Theoretical Foundation for Understanding Firm Size Distributions and Gibrat's Law
Laincz, Christopher A; Rodrigues, Ana Sofia Domingues - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University …
This paper presents a dynamic model of the firm size distribution. Empirical studies of the firm size distribution often compare the moments to a log-normal distribution as implied by Gibrat's Law and note important deviations. Thus, the first, and basic questions we ask are how well does the...
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Horizontal Mergers in the Spokes Model
Dargaud, Emilie; Reggiani, Carlo - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University …
The theoretical analysis of merger poses a number of paradoxes. If firms compete in prices, a merger is profitable for all parties involved. Outsiders, however, free-ride and earn higher profits than insiders. The "spokes model" is a recently introduced framework to study n-firms spatial...
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Optimal Differentiation and Spatial Competition: The Spokes Model with Product Delivery
Reggiani, Carlo - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University …
The spokes model is a recent framework to study n-firms spatial competition. In a spatial framework firms delivering their product can price discriminate with respect to consumers’ location. Conditions for the existence of a price-location equilibrium of the spokes model with delivered product...
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