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uncertain. We identify two conflicting effects. On the one hand, reducing the consumer's cost of search for quality exacerbates …, makes investment less attractive. This discourages investment, leading to lower quality. We show that reducing the search … cost leads to higher quality if the initial level of the search cost is sufficiently high but may lead to lower quality if …
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In this guide, we discuss the impact of digitalization on the music industry. We rely on market and survey data at the international level as well as expert statements from the industry. The guide investigates recent developments in legal and technological protection of digital music and...
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Bedeutet das Internet das "Ende der Geographie", den "Tod der Distanz" oder gar den "Niedergang der Städte"? Solche … Informationen wichtig sind, verlieren durch das Internet an Raumbindung. Sie werden in noch stärkerem Maße als bislang aus … Zentren im fortschreitenden Internetzeitalter sogar wieder wichtiger werden. Das Internet wird die Städtehierarchie …
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The use of information and communication technologies (ICT) within multinational groups leads to a rising number of intragroup cross-border transactions. At the same time, transactions and the organisational structures of affiliated groups become more and more specific and, thus, less...
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analysis, an e-tailer?s Internet search engine rank as well as its advertising activities in search engines serve as proxies …An Internet retailer?s (e-tailer?s) outstanding virtual location enhances the probability of being noticed by potential … for the virtual location. The results suggest that it is optimal for e-tailers to complement a high search engine rank …
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Although in its infancy, one promising application of Internet technology for firms is so-called Internet commerce or … likely to use this new Internet application if others within the same industry likewise do it. We find no significant effects …
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We estimate the effect of internet penetration on retail bank margins in the euro area. Based on an adapted Baumol … [1982] type contestability model, we argue that the internet has reduced sunk costs and therefore increased contestability … countries. We utilise time series and cross-sectional variation in internet penetration. We find support for an increase in …
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Gegenwärtig vollzieht sich eine Wandlung von Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft durch das Internet. Sind die hohen Erwartungen …, die von vielen an das Internet geknüpft werden, berechtigt? Was vermag das Internet zu leisten? …
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angesehen werden. Die Untersuchung konzentriert sich auf zwei spezifische Charakteristika dieses Wandels zu einer Internet … entwickelten graphischen Analysemethode werden zunächst bekannte Phänomene wie Kritische Masse und Lock-In im Kontext der Internet …
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Wir untersuchen die Bedingungen, unter denen infolge der Globalisierung, insbesondere des Verfalls der (Informations-) Transaktionskosten Wettbewerbspolitik möglich ist. Zunächst zeigen wir in einem theoretischen Abschnitt die Folgen der veränderten Transaktionskosten auf institutionelle...
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