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Firms selling multiple quality-differentiated products frequently alter their product lines when a competitor enters the market. We present a model of multiproduct monopoly and duopoly using a general `upgrades` approach that yields a powerful analytical framework. We provide a simple...
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This paper analyses how competition over rebates for customer loyalty across product lines affects firms` pricing and consumers generally. If buyers incur firm specific costs or have shop specific tastes then competitive loyalty discounts lower consumer surplus overall and raise profits - the...
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We construct a unique panel dataset to examine how R&D and intellectual property (IP), via patents and trade marks, increase firm productivity. Knowledge has public good characteristics of non-depletability and non-excludability. Even with IP, imitation and inventing around other firm`s products...
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This paper studies the contracting problem between banks and their bankers, embedded in a competitive labour market for … banker talent.  To motivate effort banks must use some variable remuneration.  Such remuneration introduces a risk … between banks for bankers rises it becomes more expensive to manage the risk-shifting problem than the moral hazard problem …
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calibrated against UK data. The model comprises a household sector, three active heterogeneous banks, a central bank … in our model, i.e. banks` probabilities of default and banks` profits - to a proxy of welfare. …
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The objective of this paper is to propose a model to assess risk for banks. Its main innovation is to incorporate … endogenous interaction between banks, recognising that the actual risk to which an individual bank is exposed also depends on its … interaction with other banks and other private sector agents. To this end, we develop a two-period general equilibrium model with …
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unweighted leverage ratio, we find the risk-weighted asset ratio to be a superior predictor of bank failure when banks operate … leverage ratio is the more reliable predictor.  However, when banks do not operate under Basel II rules, both ratios perform … banks with low initial levels of Tier 1 capital and in banks that adopted Basel II rules early.  We find tangible common …
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Data from two different primary sources were used to construct indices of house prices (HPI) and rents (RRPI) of residential property located in London and the Home Counties between 1895 and 1939.  The indices were derived using the hedonics method of price index measurement, which extracts the...
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This paper examines the patenting behavior of firms in an industry characterized by rapid technological change and cumulative innovation. Recent survey evidence suggests that semiconductor firms do not rely heavily on patents to appropriate the returns to R&D, despite the strengthening of US...
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This paper analyses the real economy effects of firms having some shareholders with a short investment horizon on their shareholder register.  Short-term shareholders cause management to be concerned with the path of the share price as well as its ultimate value.  Such shareholders in an...
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