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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
study the correlation of the estimated parameters and markups with the firm-level productivity growth. Second, the paper … contributes to literature on the structural identification of production functions in two ways. As a first step, it reviews the … price, and the collinearity among input factors of production. Additionally, we propose an identification strategy that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011210785
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010948849
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010948884
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Market Liberalization in the European Natural Gas Market - The Importance of Capacity Constraints and Efficiency Differences
Brakman, Steven; Marrewijk, Charles van; … - CESifo - 2009
In the European Union, energy markets are increasingly being liberalized. A case in point is the European natural gas industry. The general expectation is that more competition will lead to lower prices and higher volumes, and hence higher welfare. This paper indicates that this might not happen...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005013042
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Technological Change, Entry and Stock Market Dynamics: An Analysis of Transition in a Monopolistic Economy
Datta, Bipasa; Dixon, Huw D. - CESifo - 2002
This paper explores an equilibrium model for industry entry dynamics and technological change. We focus on the share valuation of firms in the transition as technology changes, and whether or not share prices are always increasing when technology improves. We find that there can be a U-shaped...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181568
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Price Coordination in Two-Sided Markets: Competition in the TV Industry
Kind, Hans Jarle; Nilssen, Tore; Sørgard, Lars - CESifo - 2010
The TV industry is a two-sided market where both advertisers and viewers buy access to the programs offered by competing TV channels. Under the current market structure advertising prices are typically set by TV channels while viewer prices are set by distributors (e.g. cable operators). The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008572578
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The Impact of Foreclosure on Housing Prices
Siebert, Ralph - CESifo - 2015
estimate the impact of foreclosure on home prices in Florida and Indiana from 2000 to 2008. We employ a model of housing demand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011163066
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The Causal Effect of Parents' Schooling on Children's Schooling - A Comparison of Estimation Methods
Holmlund, Helena; Lindahl, Mikael; Plug, Erik - CESifo - 2010
differences in data sets; (b) differences in remaining biases between different identification strategies; and (c) differences … across identification strategies in their ability to make out-of-sample predictions. We conclude that discrepancies in past …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008727305
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Trade, Integration, and Interregional Inequality
Hirte, Georg; Lessmann, Christian - CESifo - 2014
We study the effect of international trade and freeness of trade (openness) on interregional inequality within countries. We estimate a model derived from a structural economic-geography approach in which interregional inequality depends on weighted trade shares and trade costs. In addition to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877821
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Shipment Frequency of Exporters and Demand Uncertainty
Békés, Gabor; Fontagné, Lionel Gérard; Murakozy, Balazs - CESifo - 2014
Firms adjust to differences in market size and demand uncertainty by changing the frequency and size of their export … shipments. In our inventory model, transportation costs and optimal shipment frequency are determined on the basis of demand as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877733