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Innovation Clusters : Combining Physical and Virtual Links
Preissl, Brigitte - 2003
Innovation is increasingly seen as a collective action which involves many different actors operating in a cluster context. These clusters are usually conceived as local agglomerations. In this paper it will be argued that they are an important tool to study innovation, but the globalisation of...
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How does fuel taxation impact new car purchases? An evaluation using French consumer-level data
Givord, Pauline; Grislain-Letrémy, Céline; Naegele, Helene - 2014
This study evaluates the impact of fuel prices on new car purchases, using exhaustive individual-level data of monthly registration of new private cars in France from 2003 to 2007. Detailed information on the car holder enables us to account for heterogeneous preferences across purchasers. We...
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The Shipbuilding Industry in East and West: Industry Dynamics, Science and Technology Policies and Emerging Patterns of Cooperation
Bitzer, Jürgen; von Hirschhausen, Christian - 1997
Shipbuilding has changed from a heavy industry to become a capital- and technologyintensive activity over the last decades. While Japanese, South Korean and Western European yards dominate the merchant shipbuilding market so far, Eastern European yards are increasingly active, in particular in...
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Competition and innovation in a technology setting software duopoly
Schröder, Philipp J. H.; Bitzer, Jürgen - 2003
market structure from monopoly to duopoly under the assumption that software producers compete in technology rather than …, i.e. innovation. It is found that: (i) moving from monopoly to duopoly does increase the technology level set by firms … in the software industry; (ii) a duopoly adjusts more readily to global technological progress than a monopolist …
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Returns to data: Evidence from web tracking
Ullrich, Hannes; Hannane, Jonas; Peukert, Christian; … - 2024
Tracking online user behavior is essential for targeted advertising and is at the heart of the business model of major online platforms. We analyze tracker-specific web browsing data to show how the prediction quality of consumer profiles varies with data size and scope. We find decreasing...
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Transport Cost Sharing and Spatial Competition
Kyureghian, Hrachya; Sarangi, Sudipta - 2004
Hotelling (1929) type framework we analyze a duopoly where firms facing a continuum of consumers choose locations and prices …
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The Incentives for Takeover in Oligopoly
Inderst, Roman; Wey, Christian - 2004
We present a model of takeover where the target optimally sets its reserve price. Under relatively standard symmetry restrictions, we obtain a unique equilibrium. The probability of takeover is only a function of the number of firms and of the insiders' share of total industry gains due to the...
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Relationship Banking and SMEs: A Theoretical Analysis
Baas, Timo; Schrooten, Mechthild - 2005
Reliable information on small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) is rare and costly for financial intermediaries. To compensate for this, relationship banking is often considered as the appropriate lending technique in the case of SMEs. In this paper we offer a theoretical model to analyze the...
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Theoretische Analyse der Gewinnsituation im deutschen Bankensektor
Baas, Timo; Schrooten, Mechthild - 2005
Die Rendite von Sparkassen und Genossenschaftsbanken liegt in Deutschland über der von privaten Geschäftsbanken. Das vorliegende Papier bietet einen theoretischen Erklärungsansatz, der diese Renditeunterschiede auf Differenzen in der Kreditvergabestrategie zurückführt. Dieses Modell zeigt,...
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New Networks, Competition and Regulation
Baake, Pio; Kameckey, Ulrich - 2006
We consider a model with two firms operating their individual networks. Each firm can choose its price as well as its investment to build up its network. Assuming a skewed distribution of consumers, our model leads to an asymmetric market structure with one firm choosing higher investments....
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