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Intermediaries, transport costs and interlinked transactions
Lefèvre, Mélanie; Tharakan, Joe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Transport costs play a key role in agricultural markets in developing countries and are one of the causes of poverty amongst farmers that are geographically isolated. Another characteristic of agricultural markets is that they often involve interlinked transactions. However, the existing...
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Rural Windfall or a New Resource Curse? Coca, Income and Civil Conflict in Colombia
Angrist, Joshua; Kugler, Adriana D. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
Natural and agricultural resources for which there is a substantial black market, such as coca, opium, and diamonds, appear especially likely to be exploited by the parties to a civil conflict. On the other hand, these resources may also provide one of the few reliable sources of income in the...
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The Economics of Books
Canoy, Marcel; van der Ploeg, Frederick; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
The tensions between books and book markets as expressions of culture and books as products in profit-making businesses are analysed and insights from the theory of industrial organisation are given. Governments intervene in the market for books through laws concerning prices of books, grants...
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Does the 'New Economy' Measure up to the Great Inventions of the Past?
Gordon, Robert J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
past, not in the future. The Internet fails as a Great Invention because much of its use involves substitution of existing … activities from one medium to another, because much Internet investment involves defence of market share rather than creation of … something of social value, because much Internet activity duplicates existing activity like mail order catalogues, while the …
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Chicken and Egg: Competing Matchmakers
Caillaud, Bernard; Jullien, Bruno - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
intermediation on the Internet by allowing registration and transaction prices, and multiple registration. When only registration …
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Digital Goods and the New Economy
Quah, Danny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
Digital goods are bit strings, sequences of 0s and 1s, that have economic value. They are distinguished from other goods by five characteristics: digital goods are non-rival, infinitely expansible, discrete, aspatial, and recombinant. The New Economy is one where the economics of digital goods...
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Matching Demand and Supply in a Weightless Economy: Market-Driven Creativity With and Without IPRs
Quah, Danny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
Many cultural products have the same non-rival nature as scientific knowledge. They therefore face identical difficulties in creation and dissemination. One traditional view says market failure is endemic – societies tolerate monopolistic inefficiency in intellectual property (IP) protection...
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IPO Pricing in the dot-com Bubble
Ljungqvist, Alexander P.; Wilhelm Jr, William J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
preponderance of Internet and high-tech firms going public. Our results suggest that it was firm characteristics that were unique …
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Advertising and the Distribution of Content
Weeds, Helen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
distribution of content to pay TV and free-to-air broadcasters, and for internet distribution of content. …
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Cable Regulation in the Internet Era
Crawford, Gregory S - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
The market for multi-channel video programming has undergone considerable change in the last 15 years. Direct-Broadcast Satellite service, spurred by 1999 legislation that leveled the playing field with cable television systems, has grown from 3% to 33% of the U.S. MVPD (cable, satellite, and...
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