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Measuring strategic firm interaction in product-quality choices: The case of airline flight frequency

Brueckner, Jan K.; Luo, Dan - 2013

multimarket contact generates mutual forbearance in frequency competition, finding no evidence for such an effect. …

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Competition between state universities

Luporini, Lisa; Grazzini, Annalisa; Petretto, Alessandro - 2011

We analyse how state university competition to collect resources may affect both research and the quality of teaching …

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Political Culture and Discrimination in Contests

Epstein, Gil S.; Mealem, Yosef; Nitzan, Shmuel - 2010

Many economic and political decisions are the outcome of strategic contests for a given prize. The nature of such contests can be determined by a designer who is driven by political considerations with a specific political culture. The main objective of this study is to analyze the effect of...

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Technological determinants of the group-size paradox

Kolmar, Martin; Rommeswinkel, Hendrik - 2011

The present paper analyzes situations in which groups compete for rents. A major result in the literature has been that there are both cases where larger groups have advantages and cases where they have disadvantages. The paper provides two intuitive criteria which for groups with homogenous...

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Emotions in litigation contests

Baumann, Florian; Friehe, Tim - 2011

This paper introduces the concept of emotions into the standard litigation contest. Positive (negative) emotions emerge when litigants win (lose) at trial and are dependent in particular on the level of defendant fault. Our findings establish that standard results of litigation contests change...

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Evolutionarily stable preferences in contests

Leininger, Wolfgang - 2008

We define an indirect evolutionary approach formally and apply it to (Tullock) contests. While it is known (Leininger, 2003) that the direct evolutionary approach in the form of finite population ESS (Schaffer, 1988) yields more aggressive behavior than in Nash equilibrium, it is now shown that...

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Business models for media firms : does competition matter for how they raise revenue?

Kind, Hans Jarle; Nilssen, Tore; Sørgard, Lars - 2009

The purpose of this article is to analyze how competitive forces may influence the way media firms like TV channels raise revenue. A media firm can either be financed by advertising revenue, by direct payment from the viewers (or the readers, if we consider newspapers), or by both. We show that...

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Trade openness, market competition, and inflation: Some sectoral evidence from OECD countries

Binici, Mahir; Cheung, Yin-Wong; Lai, Kon S. - 2011

This study evaluates the role market competition plays in determining inflation based on sector-level data from OECD … of market competition. This study shows that inflation decreases with greater market competitiveness even after … controlling for productivity effects. Indeed, when market competition and productivity effects are both accounted for, trade …

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Mobility and conflict

Bhattacharya, Sourav; Deb, Joyee; Kundu, Tapas - 2012

We study the role of inter-group differences in the emergence of conflict. In our setting, two groups compete for the right to allocate societys resources, and we allow for costly intergroup mobility. The winning group offers an allocation, that the opposition can either accept, or reject and...

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Exchange rate pass-through, domestic competition, and inflation: Evidence from the 2005/08 revaluation of the Renminbi

Auer, Raphael A. - 2012

This paper quantifies the effect of the government-controlled appreciation of the Chinese renminbi (RMB) vis-à-vis the USD from 2005 to 2008 on the prices charged by US producers. As the RMB during that time was pegged to a basket of currencies, the empirical strategy must account for the fact...

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