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price discriminate while the low-quality entrant sets a uniform price. The incumbent may act as a predator, that is, it may … show that when the incumbent may choose whether to price discriminate or not before the game starts, if the quality cost …
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In this paper, we present a standard quality ladders endogenous growth model with one significant new assumption, that …
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This paper explores the role of pooled-producer, e.g. private label, trade intermediation in shaping the range and diversity of exports. Direct sales maintain a firm's unique product characteristics (`brand equity'), whereas trade through an intermediary can take two forms — either a...
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This paper develops two extensions of the dynamic model presented in Melitz (2003). The first extension consists in the introduction of technology choice between three alternative production technologies: L, M and H. L is assumed to be the same as Melitz’s single production technology, while M...
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The effects of unions on productivity and firm performance have been the topic of extensive research. Existing studies have, however, primarily focused on firm-level bargaining and on markets that are characterised by a small and fixed number of identical firms. This paper studies how different...
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In the presence of increasing specialization of workers it becomes more and more difficult for firms to find the most suitable workers. In such an environment a multinational corporation has an advantage because it can exchange workers between plants in different countries. In this way it can...
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We introduce unemployment and endogenous selection of workers into different skill-classes in a trade model with two sectors and heterogeneous firms. This allows us to study the distributional consequences and the skill-specific unemployment effects of trade liberalization. We show that the...
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We introduce search and matching unemployment into a model of trade with differentiated goods and heterogeneous firms …
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terms of a public good quality are done by a central planner. More specifically, they ask the question whether a local …, through a comparison of social welfare given the strategies chosen by the locals governments, that whatever the quality of the …
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If a product has two dimensions of quality, one observable and one not, a firm can use observable quality as a signal … of unobservable quality. The correlation between consumers' valuation of high quality in each dimension is a key … determinant of the feasibility of such signaling. A firm may use price alone as a signal, or price and quality together. Both …
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