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Tariff-Mediated Network Effects versus Strategic Discounting: Evidence from German Mobile Telecommunications
Zucchini, Leon; Claussen, Jörg; Trüg, Moritz - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Mobile telecommunication operators routinely charge subscribers lower prices for calls on their own network than for calls to other networks (on-net discounts). Studies on tariff-mediated network effects suggest this is due to large operators using on-net discounts to damage smaller rivals....
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A note on the adverse effect of competition on consumers
Dinda, Soumyananda; Mukherjee, Arijit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
It is usually believed that higher competition, implying more active firms, benefits consumers. We show that this may …
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Competing Transport Networks
Leij, Marco J. van der - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003
faces competition from a slower but betteraccessible transport mode. To access the fast transport network individuals haveto … presence of competition the profit-maximizingand socially optimal decision would be to cluster the two stations. Bycontrast, in … the absence of competition both a profit-maximizing firm and a socialplanner would locate the two stations on opposite …
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Does Relative Grading help Male Students? Evidence from a Field Experiment in the Classroom
Czibor, Eszter; Onderstal, Sander; Sloof, Randolph; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014
The provision of non-pecuniary incentives in education is a topic that has received much scholarly attention lately. Our paper contributes to this discussion by investigating the effectiveness of grade incentives in increasing student performance. We perform a direct comparison of the two most...
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Competition and Educational Quality: Evidence from The Netherlands
Dijkgraaf, Elbert; Gradus, Raymond H.J.M.; Jong, Matthijs de - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009
effect of competition on educational quality as only a few countries allow large scale competition. In the Netherlands free … 100% funding. Based on panel data for the Netherlands we show that there is a relation between competition and educational …
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Competition policy and development: key issues for developing countries – a briefing
Singh, Ajit; Dhumale, Rahul - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1999
development and social welfare in relation to the present and prospective discussions on competition policy in the WTO, UNCTAD …, OECD and other fora. Although this is the immediate backdrop for an examination of competition policy in relation to … for developing countries which emerge from the theoretical and empirical analysis of competition policy and economic …
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A framework of coopetitive games:applications to the Greek crisis
Schilirò, Daniele; Carfì, David - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
In the present work we propose an original analytical model of coopetitive game. We shall apply this analytical model of coopetition (based on normal form game theory) to the Greek crisis, while conceiving this game theory model at a macro level. We construct two realizations of such model,...
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Foreign Entry and Heterogeneous Growth of Firms: Do We Observe “Creative Destruction” in China?
Deng, Paul; Jefferson, Gary - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
We adopt the framework of Schumpeterian creative destruction formalized by Aghion et al. (2009) to analyze the impact of foreign entry on the productivity growth of domestic firms. In the face of foreign entry, domestic firms exhibit heterogeneous patterns of growth depending on their...
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Product Market Predatory Threats and the Use of Performance-sensitive Debt
Kjenstad, Einar; Su, Xunhua - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
We use a variant of the Hotelling (1929) model to illustrate that, when a firm faces hard payment constraint(s), financially strong rivals may adopt predatory strategies to drive the firm out of the product market and hence to obtain extra profit from enhanced market power later on. Predation is...
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Tax-paying for Fun and Profit
Kunstadt, Robert; Maggioni, Ilaria - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Modern advances give us the ability to re-engineer the taxation system to benefit from computerized automation and the insights of modern psychology. People like to do things that bring a tangible reward. Tax-paying should be made FUN, not a chore. You will want to participate if you perceive a...
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