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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010726423
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005129617
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005328494
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Reducing Efficiency through Communication in Competitive Coordination Games
Cason, Timothy N.; Sheremeta, Roman M.; Zhang, Jingjing - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2009
Costless pre-play communication has been found to effectively facilitate coordination and enhance efficiency by increasing individual payoffs in games with Pareto-ranked equilibria. We report an experiment in which two groups compete in a weakest-link contest by expending costly efforts....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008625833
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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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Hypothetical and convenience sample biases in value orientations ring games
Mentzakis, Emmanouil; Mestelman, Stuart - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2010
The social value orientations ring game is often used to identify behavioural types and provide insight regarding choices made by individuals in market or non-market environments. However, research on the impact of providing salient rewards to individuals making choices in the ring game is...
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Diversity and Donations: The Effect of Religious and Ethnic Diversity on Charitable Giving
Andreoni, James; Payne, A. Abigail; Smith, Justin; … - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2013
We explore the effects of local ethnic and religious diversity on private donations to charity. We find that an increase in religious or ethnic diversity decreases donations. The ethnicity effect is driven by non-minorities and blacks, and is strongest in high income, low education areas. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010674607
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Communication in Asymmetric Group Competition over Public Goods
Zhang, Jingjing - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2009
This paper examines whether and how communication can help groups solve coordination and free-rider problems when they compete with another group for a public-good prize. We find that when group members make an anonymous individual decision on whether or not to contribute to the group success,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008528456
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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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