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Heterogeneous Preferences for Community Recycling Programs

Kipperberg, Gorm; Larson, Douglas M. - Universitetet <Stavanger> / School of Business …

This paper examines households’ preferences for community recycling programs,which have both public and private good … (or program changes) relative to status quo with experimental variation inthe overall community recycling rate achieved … and expected household cost. Thecommunity recycling rate is interpreted as capturing the public benefits of …

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Determinants of product differentiation: A Survey

Brenner, Steffen - 2001

This paper reviews the Hotelling literature of product differentiation. The purpose of this work is to examine the impact of the market structure on price competitionand equilibrium differentiation. The existence of a general principle of differentiation is rejected. In contrast,...

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Developer's Expertise and the Dynamics of Financial Innovation : Theory and Evidence

Herrera, Helios; Schroth, Enrique - Institut für Schweizerisches Bankwesen <Zürich>; … - 2004

We study product innovation and imitation in the market of corporate underwriting with a dynamic model where client switching costs and the bankers expertise in deal structuring characterize the life cycle of a security. While the clientele loyalty allows positive rent extraction, the superior...

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WELFARE IMPLICATIONSOF USER INNOVATION

Hippel, Eric von; Henkel, Joachim - Centre for Economic Policy Research <London> - 2003

The literature on new goods and social welfare generally assumes thatmanufacturers develop innovations. But innovation by users has been foundto also be an important part of innovative activity in the economy. In this Paperwe explore the impact of users as a source of innovation on product...

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Regulation in the Market for Education andOptimal Choice of Curriculum

Eisenkopf, Gerald; Wohlschlegel, Ansgar - Thurgauer Wirtschaftsinstitut <Kreuzlingen> - 2011

We analyze educational institutions’ incentives to set up demanding or lax curricula induopolistic markets for education with endogenous enrolment of students. We assume thatthere is a positive externality of student achievement on the local economy. Comparingthe case of regulated tuition fees...

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Product Differentiation forSoftware-as-a-Service Providers

Katzmarzik, Arne - Universität <Augsburg> / Lehrstuhl für … - 2011

The market for the new provisioning type Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) has reached a significantsize and still shows enormous growth rates. By varying size of SaaS products, providerscan improve their market position and profits by successfully acting in the tension area ofcustomer acquisition,...

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Content and advertising in the media: pay-tv versus free-to-air

Peitz, Martin; Valletti, Tommaso M. - 2005

We compare the advertising intensity and content of programming in a market withcompeting media platforms. With pay-tv, media platforms have two sources of revenues,advertising revenues and revenues from viewers. With free-to-air, media platformsreceive all revenues from advertising. We show...

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A General Solution Framework for Component-Commonality Problems

Boysen, Nils; Scholl, Armin - Verband der Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaft - 2009

Component commonality - the use of the same version of a component across multiple products - is being increasingly considered as a promising way to offer high external variety while retaining low internal variety in operations. However, increasing commonality has both positive and negative cost...

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The Impact of Intermediary Remuneration in Diferentiated Insurance Markets

Hofmann, Annette; Nell, Martin - Universität <Hamburg> / Institut für … - 2008

This article deals with the impact of intermediaries on insurance market transparancy and performance. In a market exhibiting product diferentiation and coexistence of of perfectly and imperfectly informed consumers, competition among insurers leads to non-existence of a pure-strategy market...

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A note on price competitionin product differentiation models

Gabszewicz, Jean Jaskold - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics … - 2009

We define a two-variant model of product differentiation which, depending on the number of consumersprefering one variant to the other, provides equilibrium prices reflecting the natural valuation of thesevariants by the market....

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