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We study two platforms competing for members by investing in network quality.  Quality is complementary to the network size: the marginal utility generated by an additional member increases with the network's quality.  Platforms are imperfect substitutes: a share of the potential members are...
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This paper evaluates alternative strategic models of competition and market structure in online retailing, and makes comparisons with traditional retailing. Online consumers are less concerned than traditional consumers about spatial characteristics and more concerned about hidden quality...
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The trend towards Internet self-regulation is driven both by governments that feel reluctant to invest in direct …
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This paper evaluates alternative strategic models of competition and market structure in online retailing, and makes comparisons with traditional retailing. Online consumers are less concerned than traditional consumers about spatial characteristics and more concerned about hidden quality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005047767
appropriate data set for China.  The tests favour the early theories.  Implications are drawn. …
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China and the United States.  We construct a firm-level dataset by matching USPTO and SIPO patents to Chinese manufacturing … China are considerably younger, larger and substantially more export-oriented than firms patenting exclusively in China ….  Our study contributes to the debate on China's innovative prowess and its potential to transition from an imitator to an …
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generate a poverty trap.  The setting is rural China, and the data are from a national household survey for 2002, designed with … research hypotheses in mind.  Enrolment is high in rural China by comparison with most poor rural societies, but the quality of …
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there is strong son preference in rural China, we postulate two main hypotheses: income-based sex selection making it more …, this is the first study to test these hypotheses in rural China and more generally in developing countries. …
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This paper provides micro-level evidence that drug advertising regulations and inspections in China are used by local … inherent in a partially reformed economy such as China. …
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The paper examines the notion of a 'developmental state' and shows that China possesses the characteristics of a … developmental state.  It explains the political economy which generated such a state in China and in some other economies.  It … the question: can China's developmental state be sustained?  Conclusions are drawn for both China and other developing …
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