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Open Versus Closed Platforms
Tåg, Joacim - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008
This paper studies an industry in which firms can choose to provide open or closed platforms. Open platforms, as opposed to closed, are extendable so third-party producers can develop extensions for them. Building on a two-sided market model, I show that firms might prefer to commit to keeping...
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Sealed Bid Auctions vs. Ascending Bid Auctions: An Experimental Study
Andersson, Christer; Andersson, Ola; Andersson, Tommy - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2011
This paper considers the sealed bid and ascending auction, which both identifies the minimum Walrasian equilibrium prices and where truthful preference revelation constitutes an equilibrium. Even though these auction formats share many theortical properties, there are behavioral aspects that are...
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The Insider's Dilemma: An Experiment on Merger Formation.
Lindqvist, T.; Stennek, J. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2001
This paper tests the insiders' dilemma hypothesis in a laboratory experiment. The insiders' dilemma means that a profitable merger does not occur, because it is even more profitable for each firm to unilaterally stand as an outsider (Kamien and Zang, 1990 and 1993). The experimental data...
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Pro-Competitive Rationing in Multi-Unit Auctions
Holmberg, Pär - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014
In multi-unit auctions, such as auctions of commodities and securities, and financial exchanges, it is necessary to specify rationing rules to break ties between multiple marginal bids. The standard approach in the literature and in practice is to ration marginal bids proportionally. This paper...
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How to Avoid Compensating CEO for Luck: The Case of Microeconomic Fluctuations
Oxelheim, Lars; Wihlborg, Clas; Zhang, Jianhua - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2010
Incentive effects of performance-based compensation schemes for management may be weakened or biased by macroeconomic influences on remuneration. These influences can be seen as reflecting luck from the CEO’s perspective. In this chapter we present a model for how to avoid compensating CEO for...
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Visits to the Client when Tendering for Consulting Contracts: Sourcing Information or Influencing the Client?
Svensson, Roger - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2000
Consulting firms (CFs) sell services on a project basis to many clients and must therefore continuously tender for new contracts. One frequently used strategy by CFs is to visit the clients in connection to the tenders. The reason to the visits is either: 1) to influence the client in his...
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Visits to the Client when Tendering for Consulting Contracts: Sourcing Information or Influencing the Client?.
Svensson, R. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2000
Consulting firms (CFs) sell services on a project basis to many clients and must therefore continuously tender for new contracts. One frequently used strategy by CFs is to visit the clients in connection to the tenders. The reason to the visits is either: 1) to influence the client in his...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005639316
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Wholesale Price Discrimination and Parallel Imports
Ganslandt, Mattias; Maskus, Keith E. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2007
We develop a model of vertical pricing in which an original manufacturer sets wholesale prices in two markets …
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Intellectual Property Rights, Parallel Imports and Strategic Behavior
Maskus, Keith E.; Ganslandt, Mattias - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2007
subject of this survey article. For example, parallel trade is essentially arbitrage within policy-integrated markets of IPR … rise to such arbitrage. First is simple retail-level trade in horizontal markets because consumer prices may differ. Second … manufacturer selling its goods through wholesale distributors in different markets. This vertical price control problem presents …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645344
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Executive Compensation and Macroeconomic Fluctuations
Oxelheim, Lars; Wihlborg, Clas; Zhang, Jianhoa - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008
Macroeconomic fluctuations affect corporations’ performance through demand and cost conditions. Incentive effects of performance-based compensation schemes for management may be weakened or biased by macroeconomic influences if management is unable to forecast macroeconomic fluctuations or...
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