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Lucke, Dorothea; Schröder, Philipp J. H.; Schumacher, … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004

This note explores the relationship between the price elasticity of demand and the R&D intensity of the product. We … cost of production. Within this framework, sectors with a higher R&D intensity show a lower price elasticity of demand …

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B2C eCommerce Strategy and Market Structure: The Survey Based Approach

Schmitz, Stefan W.; Sint, Paul Peter - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003

This paper follows two objectives: (i) It demonstrates the merits of the survey based approach to B2C eCommerce characteristics and company strategy, and (ii) it presents empirical evidence of the crucial importance of size and marketing investment in B2C eCommerce markets. It presents...

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Hypermarket Competition and the Diffusion of Retail Checkout Barcode Scanning

Beck, Jonathan; Grajek, Michal; Wey, Christian - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005

that hypermarket competition reduces long-run adoption of information technology (IT) in retailing. In particular, the …

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Does State Antitrust Enforcement Drive Establishment Exit?

Feinberg, Robert M.; Husted, Thomas A.; Szücs, Florian - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013

Previous work has shown that state-level antitrust enforcement activity may have impacts on entry and relocation behavior by U.S. firms. Significant state-level antitrust activity may be an indicator of a perceived adverse business environment and it is found to deter establishment entry,...

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Increasing Block Tariffs in the Water Sector: An Interpretation in Terms of Social Preferences

Meran, Georg; Hirschhausen, Christian von - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014

Many developing countries around the world apply progressive water tariffs, often structured in the form of discretely increasing block tariffs (IBTs). These tariffs have been criticized in the welfare economic literature due to their perceived inefficiency: many of the prices charged under IBTs...

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Increasing Block Tariffs in the Water Sector: A Semi-Welfarist Approach

Meran, Georg; Hirschhausen, Christian von - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

-best pricing schemes that may be applied in practice due to "fairness" or other, non-welfarist considerations. In our theoretical …

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A Modified Yardstick Competition Mechanism

Meran, Georg; Hirschhausen, Christian von - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

allowing for spatial and second degree price discrimination, without increasing the informational requirements. We also …

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A Market Screening Model for Price Inconstancies: Empirical Evidence from German Electricity Markets

Blanckenburg, Korbinian von; Hanfeld, Marc; Kholodilin, … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013

In this paper, we develop a market screening model to detect inconstancies in price changes. Although there is a long … history of industrial organization research of collusion, price setting behavior, and conduct - a robust model to detect … be successful in controlling the market price for several phases. …

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Mergers & Acquisitions and Innovation Performance in the Telecommunications Equipment Industry

Gantumur, Tseveen; Stephan, Andreas - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

The telecommunications in the 1990s witnessed an enormous worldwide round of Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A). This paper examines the innovation determinants of M&A activity and the consequences of M&A transactions on the technological potential and the innovation performance. We examine the...

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Vertical Integration and Market Foreclosure with Convex Downstream Costs

Baake, Pio; Kamecke, Ulrich; Normann, Hans-Theo - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2001

In a framework with an upstream monopoly and a downstream duopoly, we analyze the impact of convex costs on the downstream level. In constrast to the case of constant marginal costs, vertical integration does not imply complete market foreclosure. While the nonintegrated downstream ¯rm receives...

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