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Relational Warm Glow and Giving in Social Groups

Scharf, Kimberley; Smith, Sarah - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

between social group size and fundraising outcomes: (i) a positive relationship between group size and the total number of …

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Direct and Indirect Network Effects are Equivalent: A Comment on “Direct and Indirect Network Effects: Are They Equivalent?”

Church, Jeffrey; Gandal, Neil - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

do not, in the case of indirect network effects, make standardization more likely, but (ii) indirect network effects are … associated with excessive standardization. We show in Clements’ framework that neither of these results are correct …: standardization is more likely as the number of software firms increases and when the type of market equilibrium is unique— there are …

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Legal Evolution, Contract Evolution, and Standardization

Gennaioli, Nicola; Perotti, Enrico C; Ponzetto, Giacomo AM - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

law matures. Contract standardization avoids this cost, statically improving enforcement; but it crowds out innovative …

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The Rules of Standard Setting Organizations: An Empirical Analysis

Chiao, Benjamin; Lerner, Josh; Tirole, Jean - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

This paper empirically explores standard-setting organizations’ policy choices. Consistent with Lerner-Tirole (2006), we find (a) a negative relationship between the extent to which an SSO is oriented to technology sponsors and the concession level required of sponsors and (b) a positive...

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Network Effects, Standardization, and the Internet: What Have We Learned From The DVD Vs. DIVX Battle?

Dranove, David; Gandal, Neil - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

standardization, that is, left alone the market may fail to achieve standardization when it is socially desirable and (2) even if the …

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A Quantitative Analysis of the Retail Market for Illicit Drugs

Galenianos, Manolis; Gavazza, Alessandro - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

We develop a theoretical framework to study illicit drugs markets and we estimate it using data on purchases of crack cocaine. Buyers are searching for high-quality drugs, but they determine drugs' quality (i.e., their purity) only after consuming them. Hence, sellers can rip off first-time...

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A Linder Hypothesis for Foreign Direct Investment

Fajgelbaum, Pablo; Grossman, Gene; Helpman, Elhanan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We study patterns of FDI in a multi-country world economy. First, we present evidence for a broad sample of countries that firms direct FDI disproportionately to markets with income levels similar to their home market. Then we develop a model featuring non-homothetic preferences for quality and...

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Export Destinations and Input Prices

Bastos, Paulo; Silva, Joana; Verhoogen, Eric A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

This paper examines the extent to which the destination of exports matters for the input prices paid by firms, using detailed customs and firm-product-level data from Portugal. We use exchange-rate movements as a source of variation in export destinations and find that exporting to richer...

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The Quality-Complementarity Hypothesis: Theory and Evidence from Colombia

Kugler, Maurice; Verhoogen, Eric A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

This paper presents a tractable formalization and an empirical investigation of the quality-complementarity hypothesis, the hypothesis that input quality and plant productivity are complementary in generating output quality. We embed this complementarity in a general-equilibrium trade model with...

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Product Quality and Worker Quality

Abowd, John M; Kramarz, Francis - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

We study the relation between product quality and worker quality using an economic model that, under certain conditions, provides a direct link between product price, product quality and work-force quality. Our measures of product quality are the evolution in the detailed product price relative...

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