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Measuring the Intensity of Competition in Export Markets
Goldberg, Pinelopi K. - 1995
This paper develops an approach to measuring the intensity of competition in international markets. The method measures the degree of 'outside' competition faced by exporters located in one source country from firms located outside the source country. We use the elasticity of price and quantity...
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The Effects of Website Provision on the Demand for German Women's Magazines
Kaiser, Ulrich - 2002
The effect of website provision on the demand for German women's magazines is analyzed using differentiated product … demand models estimated on panel data that cover the period 1990 2000. Descriptive evidence on the magazines' website … provision does not significantly affect magazines' market shares. This result is robust with respect to the application of …
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Demand Shocks and Supply Chain Resilience : An Agent Based Modelling Approach and Application to the Potato Supply Chain
Lu, Liang; Nguyen, Ruby; Rahman, Md Mamunur; Winfree, Jason - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The food supply chain has experienced major disruptions from both demand and supply sides during the Covid-19 pandemic … difficult task. With an attempt to understand impacts of demand on the food supply chain, we developed an agent-based model … demand shock will have different impacts on various stakeholders of the supply chain. Our contribution to the literature is …
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Baumol's Diseases : A Macroeconomic Perspective
Nordhaus, William D. - 2006
William Baumol and his co-authors have analyzed the impact of differential productivity growth on the health of different sectors and on the overall economy. They argued that technologically stagnant sectors experience above average cost and price increases, take a rising share of national...
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Preference Externalities : An Empirical Study of Who Benefits Whom in Differentiated Product Markets
Waldfogel, Joel - 1999
satisfaction grow in market size. We document this phenomenon across 246 US radio markets. By a mechanism that we term 'preference … externalities', an increase in the size of the market brings forth additional products valued by others with similar tastes. But who … possibly reduced) by the size of the white population. Consequently, small groups receive less variety from the market. Forces …
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Do Digital Platforms Reduce Moral Hazard? The Case of Uber and Taxis
Liu, Meng - 2018
Digital platforms like Uber can enhance market transparency and mitigate moral hazard via ratings of buyers and sellers …
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Identification in Differentiated Products Markets Using Market Level Data
Berry, Steven T. - 2010
We consider nonparametric identification in models of differentiated products markets, using only market level … observables. On the demand side we consider a nonparametric random utility model nesting random coefficients discrete choice … models widely used in applied work. We allow for product/market-specific unobservables, endogenous product characteristics (e …
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Product Market Regulation and Market Work : A Benchmark Analysis
Fang, Lei - 2007
Recent empirical work finds a negative correlation between product market regulation and aggregate employment. We … examine the effect of product market regulations on hours worked in a benchmark aggregate model of time allocation. We find … that product market regulations affect time devoted to market work in effectively the same fashion as do taxes on labor …
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Using a Hedonic Model of Solar Radiation to Assess the Economic Effect of Climate Change : The Case of Mosel Valley Vineyards
Ashenfelter, Orley - 2006
agricultural land and then apply this method using a rich set of data on the vineyards of the Mosel Valley in Germany. The basic …
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Do the Young British Artists Rule (or : Has London Stolen the Idea of Postmodern Art from New York?)
Galenson, David W. - 2005
In recent years, some English critics have claimed that Damien Hirst and his fellow young British artists have made London the new center of the advanced art world. As Hirst reaches the age of 40, this paper uses auction results to measure the importance of the YBAs compared to their American...
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