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Mass customization with additive manufacturing : blessing or curse for society?
Schwierzy, Julian; Wenzel, Tobias - 2024
Additive Manufacturing (AM) enables mass customization and has thereby the potential to revolutionize traditional manufacturing. In this paper, we examine how the adoption of AM affects competition and welfare in traditionally standardized product markets. Analyzing a game-theoretical model of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014631790
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Getting beer during commercials: adverse effects of ad-avoidance
Stühmeier, Torben; Wenzel, Tobias - 2010
This paper studies the impact of ad-avoidance behavior in media markets. We consider a situation where viewers can avoid advertisement messages. As the media market is a two-sided market, increased ad-avoidance reduces advertisers' value of placing an ad. We contrast two financing regimes,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010302572
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Price Discrimination in Input Markets: Downstream Entry and Welfare
Herweg, Fabian; Müller, Daniel - 2010
The extant theory on price discrimination in input markets takes the structure of the intermediate industry as exogenously given. This paper endogenizes the structure of the intermediate industry and examines the effects of banning third-degree price discrimination on market structure and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270421
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Price Discrimination in Input Markets: Quantity Discounts and Private Information
Herweg, Fabian; Müller, Daniel - 2011
We consider a monopolistic supplier’s optimal choice of wholesale tariffs when downstream firms are privately informed about their retail costs. Under discriminatory pricing, downstream firms that differ in their ex ante distribution of retail costs are offered different tariffs. Under uniform...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010427606
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Getting beer during commercials : adverse effects of ad-avoidance
Stühmeier, Torben; Wenzel, Tobias - 2010
This paper studies the impact of ad-avoidance behavior in media markets. We consider a situation where viewers can avoid advertisement messages. As the media market is a two-sided market, increased ad-avoidance reduces advertisers' value of placing an ad. We contrast two financing regimes,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008666980
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Price discrimination in input markets : downstream entry and welfare
Herweg, Fabian; Müller, Daniel - 2010
The extant theory on price discrimination in input markets takes the structure of the intermediate industry as exogenously given. This paper endogenizes the structure of the intermediate industry and examines the effects of banning third-degree price discrimination on market structure and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003954080
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Price discrimination in input markets : quantity discounts and private information
Herweg, Fabian; Müller, Daniel - 2011
We consider a monopolistic supplier's optimal choice of wholesale tariffs when downstream firms are privately informed about their retail costs. Under discriminatory pricing, downstream firms that differ in their ex ante distribution of retail costs are offered different tariffs. Under uniform...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009375743
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Concentrating on the Fall of the Labor Share
Autor, David H. - 2017
al. (2017), we evaluate and confirm two core claims of the superstar firm hypothesis: the concentration of sales among … firms within industries has risen across much of the private sector; and industries with larger increases in concentration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012963787
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The Fall of the Labor Share and the Rise of Superstar Firms
Autor, David H. - 2017
firms in each industry, product market concentration will rise as industries become increasingly dominated by superstar … increasingly concentrate in a small number of firms; industries where concentration rises most will have the largest declines in … share will be greatest in the sectors with the largest increases in market concentration; and finally, such patterns will be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012956029
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The fall of the labor share and the rise of superstar firms
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Katz, Lawrence F.; … - 2017
firms in each industry, product market concentration will rise as industries become increasingly dominated by superstar … increasingly concentrate in a small number of firms; industries where concentration rises most will have the largest declines in … share will be greatest in the sectors with the largest increases in market concentration; and finally, such patterns will be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011647664