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Sinking the Internet: Pricing, Sunk Costs, and Market Structure Online.

Latcovich, S.; Smith, H. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2000

characteristics and more concerned about hidden quality characteristics. Online retailers rely more on advertising than traditional … retailers do, to inform consumers and to signal hidden quality attributes. Price competition may be imperfect, because of … the market increases, advertising costs escalate and there is no new entry. Advertising to sales ratios and market …

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Procedures for Computing Equilibria of the Oligopoly Expansion Game Under Predetermined Multi-Period Pricings, Part II: Second-Lowest Marginal-Cost Pricing.

Wei, J.Y.; Smeers, Y. - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 1996

A two-stage game is used in this paper to model a long-run market with spatially separated producers and with multi-period demands: first, firmas simultaneously and independently invest their capacities; second, after capacities are set up in the first stage and made public, firms engage in a...

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Where is Aggressive Price Competition Taking Higher Education?

Winston, G.C.; Zimmerman, D.J. - Center for Development Economics, Williams College - 2000

universities. Using data from IPEDS we estimate the resulting distribution of prices and school quality. While price competition …

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Do University Site Licences for Academic Journals Benefit the Scientific Community?

Bergstrom, T.C.; Bergstrom, C.T. - 2001

We ask whether university-wide site licences perform a fiscal function that benefits the academic community. We find a surprising answer. If a journal is priced to maximize the publisher's profits, scholars on average are likely to be worse off when universities purchase site lisences than they...

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Free Labor for Costly Journal?

Bergstrom, T.C. - 2001

By charging prices far above their average costs, commercial publishers of academic journals have been draining huge …

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Import Restraints and Quality Choice under Vertical Differentiation.

Boccard, N.; Wauthy, X. - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 1998

choose their quality level before engaging a price competition. We first show that the indirect effect of the quota on the … sales of the domestic producer are different depending of whether his product quality is high or low. The analysis developed … for the domestic government reduces the price competition and enable both firms to upgrade to the highest possible quality …

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Product Lines and Price Discrimination in the European Car Market.

Ginsburgh, V.; Weber, S. - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 1996

In this paper we consider a model of oligopolistic competition where firms make a two-dimensional product line decision. They choose a location in style space, thus, inducing horizontal differentiation, and produce different qualities (a product line) of a given good (vertical differentiation),...

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Price Discrimination and Three Part Tariffs in a Duopoly.

Jensen, S. - Norges Handelshøyskole (NHH) - 2000

The paper studies how second degree price discrimination can be implemented in a duopoly with differentiated products. Two firms serve consumers having heterogeneous willingness to pay for the good, willingness to pay being private knowledge. Consumers choose from a menu of tariffs and are...

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Strategic Location with Asymmetric Transportation Costs.

Nilssen, T.; Sorgard, L. - Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo - 1996

' transportation costs are asymmetric, in the sence that it is more costly for consumer to move in one direction, say on the left …

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The Impact of Competition on Prices and Wages in Dutch Manufacturing Industries.

Lever, M.H.C. - NEUHUYS - RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR SMALL AND MEDIUM - 1997

The impact of competition on prices and wages in investigated using a panel of three-digit industries in the Dutch Manufacturing sector (1978-1991). Output prices are explaining using an oligopoly model, whereas wages are axplained through a bargaining model. The analysis reveals that market...

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