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Should Utility-Reducing Media Advertising be Taxed?
Kind, Hans Jarle; Köthenbürger, Marko; Schjelderup, … - CESifo - 2009
Empirical evidence suggests that people dislike ads in media products like TV programs. In such situations standard economic theory prescribes that the advertising volume can be optimally reduced by levying a tax on ads. However, making use of recent advances in the theory of Industrial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005051527
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Inventory Control and Intermediation in Global Supply Chains
Qu, Zhan; Raff, Horst; Schmitt, Nicolas - CESifo - 2015
The paper develops a simple theoretical model of inventory control in global supply chains. It identifies a role for intermediaries in managing inventory, and shows that inserting an intermediary as an additional link in a supply chain is profitable when demand volatility is high. It also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011210404
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Is Medicines Parallel Trade ‘Regulatory Arbitrage’?
Costa-i-Font, Joan - CESifo - 2015
group (statins) that accounted for 5% of the market at the time of study and faced no generic competition. Our findings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011274346
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Greasing the Wheels of International Commerce: How Services Facilitate Firms' International Sourcing
Debaere, Peter; Görg, Holger; Raff, Horst - CESifo - 2010
manufacturing firms to source materials from abroad. To guide our empirical analysis we develop a monopolistic-competition model of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008583654
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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
incorporated. We find that tougher competition between the JV partners may actually increase channel profit under such a scheme. We …
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Competition in the Presence of Individual Demand Uncertainty
Möller, Marc; Watanabe, Makoto - CESifo - 2013
This paper sheds light on an empirical controversy about the effect of competition on price discrimination. We … shows that whether competition has a positive or negative effect on price dispersion depends on the level of demand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877946
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Expectations as Reference Points: Field Evidence from Experienced Subjects in a Competitive, High-Stakes Environment
Bartling, Björn; Brandes, Leif; Schunk, Daniel - CESifo - 2012
We show that professional soccer players exhibit reference-dependent behavior during matches. Controlling for the state of the match and for unobserved heterogeneity, we show on a minute-by-minute basis that a player breaches the rules of the game, measured by the referee’s assignment of...
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Powering Up Developing Countries through Integration?
Auriol, Emmanuelle; Biancini, Sara - CESifo - 2012
Power market integration is analyzed in a two countries model with nationally regulated firms and costly public funds. If generation costs between the two countries are too similar negative business-stealing outweighs efficiency gains so that following integration welfare decreases in both...
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A Simple Model of Health Insurance Competition
Kemnitz, Alexander - CESifo - 2010
This paper investigates competition between health insurance companies under different financing regulations. We … consider two alternatives advanced in recent German health care reform discussions: competition by contribution rates (health … contributions) and by fees (health premia). We find that contribution rate competition yields lower company profits and higher …
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