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Private Label Price Rigidity during Holiday Periods

Müller, Georg; Bergen, Mark; Dutta, Shantanu; Levy, Daniel - EconWPA - 2005

Using weekly retail transaction scanner price data from a large U.S supermarket chain, we find significantly higher retail price rigidity for private label products than for nationally branded products during the Christmas and Thanksgiving holiday periods relative to the rest of the year. The...

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The Effects of Job and Housing Location on Race/Gender Wage Differentials in Milwaukee: Testing the `Network Hypothesis'

Drago, Robert - EconWPA - 1994

This study considers the joint role of job and housing location as they affect the earnings of different race and gender groups. Building on Wial's (1991) case study of networks in Boston which distribute good jobs, the `network hypothesis' suggests that the channels which distribute high wage...

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Microfinance Market Niches and Client Profiles in Bolivia

Gonzalez-Vega, Claudio; Meyer, Richard L.; Navajas, Sergio - EconWPA - 2001

This paper presents and interprets descriptive statistics generated from data obtained in a survey of clients of five microfinance organizations believed to be among the best in Bolivia. These lenders represent different combinations of organizational design, lending technology, and market area...

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PRIVATE BANKING IN EUROPE - Getting Clients & Keeping Them!

Omarini, Anna; Molineux, Philip - EconWPA - 2005

segmentation, retention and acquisition. There has been substantial growth in private banking business over the last decade or so … segmentation, retention and acquisition strategies. Overall we find that private banks will have to adopt a more systematic …

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International Financial Markets Integration or Segmentation: A Case Study of Equity Markets

Guha, Puja; Daga, Shivani; Gulati, Richa; Bhupal, Ganita; … - EconWPA - 2004

Over the past 15 years, financial markets have become increasingly global. The relationship among the equity markets of the developed and the emerging countries has been examined extensively in the literature. This paper studies the interdependence among the major stock markets of the world....

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International Asset Pricing and World Market Integration : Evidence from a Partially Integrated ICAPM with Asymmetric Effects.

Hedi, Arouri Mohamed El - EconWPA - 2004

This paper tests a partially Segmented ICAPM using an asymmetric multivariate GARCH specification for two developed markets, two emerging markets and World market. We find that this asymmetric process provides a significantly better fit of the data than a standard symmetric process. The evidence...

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A Dual Model of Cooperative Value

Feldman, Barry - EconWPA - 2002

An expanded model of value in cooperative games is presented in which value has either a linear or a proportional mode … (1989, 1992) value have a linear mode and an input basis. The egalitarian value (Kalai and Samet (1985)) has a linear mode …

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Marketing as an entrance barrier into the fashion market

Vieira, Pedro Cosme Costa - EconWPA - 2005

In this paper I intend to model a firm decision of entrance into a profitable fashion market where fashion results from … fashion market and that ii) when incumbent firm accommodates the other firm a la Cournot there is no pure strategy Nash … equilibrium. The properties of the model seem to be in accordance with the persistence in time of fashion brands. …

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THE ADVERTISING PUSH AND THE BRAND IMAGE OF THE MARKETING DEGREES IN PORTUGAL

Leitao, Joao; Rodrigues, Ricardo Gouveia; Duarte, Paulo - EconWPA - 2005

An abrupt growth, in terms of the supply of marketing degrees in Portugal, has, recently, been observed, which has contributed for intensifying the concurrence between the institutions of undergraduate education. In this new competitive environment the development of a brand image associated...

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Privatizing Profits of Bulgaria's State Enterprises, TRANSITION newsletter about transition economies, The World Bank, Vol. 6, No.3, March 1995.

Bogetic, Zeljko; Hillman, Arye - EconWPA - 2005

The note documents and discusses the modalities and consequences of the phenomenon of siphoning profits of state enterprises for private uses by state enteprise managers and insiders in Bulgaria during the period of early transition.

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