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Creative Destruction and Productive Preemption

Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars; Svensson, Roger - CESifo - 2013

We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that inventions of higher quality are …

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The Impact of Entry Regulation on Total Welfare: A Policy Experiment

Liu, An-Hsiang; Siebert, Ralph; Zulehner, Christine - CESifo - 2013

This paper evaluates how different lengths of entry regulation impact market structure and market performance using a dynamic structural model. We formulate an oligopoly model in the tradition of Ericson and Pakes (1995) and allow entry costs to vary over time. Firms have the opportunity to...

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Levelized Product Cost: Concept and Decision Relevance

Reichelstein, Stefan; Rohlfing-Bastian, Anna - CESifo - 2014

This paper examines a life-cycle cost concept that applies to both manufacturing and service industries in which upfront capacity investments are essential. Borrowing from the energy literature, we refer to this cost measure as the levelized product cost (LC). Per unit of output, the levelized...

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Dynamic Entry and Exit Linkages in the Brazilian Manufacturing Industry: An Econometric Investigation

Resende, Marcelo; Ribeiro, Eduardo P.; Zeidan, Rodrigo M. - CESifo - 2013

The paper investigates dynamic linkages between entry and exit rates in Brazilian manufacturing in the context of 231 (4-digits) industries during the 1996-2005 period. The empirical analysis focuses on the estimation of a dynamic panel data for entry and exit rates and controls for the business...

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On the Choice of Royalty Rule to Cover Fixed Costs in Input Joint Ventures

Fjell, Kenneth; Foros, Oystein; Kind, Hans Jarle - CESifo - 2013

In a model where two competing downstream firms establish an input joint venture (JV), we analyze how different royalty rules for covering fixed costs affect channel profits. Under running royalties (regardless of whether based on predicted or actual output), the downstream firms’ perceived...

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Measuring Strategic Firm Interaction in Product-Quality Choices: The Case of Airline Flight Frequency

Brueckner, Jan K.; Luo, Dan - CESifo - 2013

This paper investigates strategic interaction among airlines in product-quality choices. Using an instrumental variables approach, the paper estimates flight-frequency reaction functions, which relate an airline’s frequency on a route to its own characteristics and to the frequencies of...

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Asymmetric Neutrality Regulation and Innovation at the Edges: Fixed vs. Mobile Networks

Choi, Jay Pil; Jeon, Doh-Shin; Kim, Byung-Cheol - CESifo - 2014

We study how net neutrality regulations affect a high-bandwidth content provider’s (CP) investment incentives in quality of services (QoS). We find that the effects crucially depend on network capacity levels. With limited capacity, as in mobile networks, prioritized delivery services are...

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Are Donors Afraid of Charities' Core Costs? Scale Economies in Non-profit Provision and Charity Selection

Perroni, Carlo; Pogrebna, Ganna; Sandford, Sarah; … - CESifo - 2014

We study contestability in non-profit markets when non-commercial providers supply a homogeneous collective good through increasing-returns-to-scale technologies. Unlike in the case of for-profit competition, in the non-profit case the absence of price-based sales contracts means that fixed...

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Productivity, Price- and Wage-Markups: An Empirical Analysis of the Dutch Manufacturing Industry

Amoroso, Sara; Melenberg, Bertrand; Plasmans, Joseph; … - CESifo - 2015

This paper examines the interaction between productivity growth, firms’ monopolistic market power, and workers’ wage bargaining power. Our study contributes to several strands of literatures. First, we examine a monopolistic framework which accounts for wage bargaining. In addition to the...

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Patent Pools, Litigation and Innovation

Choi, Jay Pil; Gerlach, Heiko - CESifo - 2013

This paper analyzes patent pools and their effects on innovation incentives. It is shown that the pro …-competitive effects of patent pools for complementary patents naturally extend for dynamic innovation incentives. However, this simple … patents reduce social welfare as they charge higher licensing fees and chill subsequent innovation incentives. …

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