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Preemptive Entry and Technology Diffusion : The Market for Drive-in Theaters
Gil, Ricard; Houde, Jean-François; Sun, Shilong; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
context is the evolution of the U.S. drive-in theater market between 1945 and 1957. We exploit a robust prediction of dynamic …
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Product Differentiation and Film Programming Choice : Do First-Run Movie Theatres Show the Same Films?
Chisholm, Darlene C. - 2006
-characteristics space. Our evidence is consistent with the idea that the degree of product differentiation between theatre pairs reflects a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466015
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The Welfare Effects of Ticket Resale
Leslie, Phillip - 2009
We develop an equilibrium model of ticket resale in which buyers' decisions in the primary market, including costly efforts to "arrive early" to buy underpriced tickets, are based on rational expectations of resale market outcomes. We estimate the parameters of the model using a novel dataset...
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How Do Patent Laws Influence Innovation? Evidence from Nineteenth-Century World Fairs
Moser, Petra - 2003
This paper introduces a new internationally comparable data set that permits an empirical investigation of the effects of patent law on innovation. The data have been constructed from the catalogues of two 19th century world fairs: the Crystal Palace Exhibition in London, 1851, and the...
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Religious Festivals and Economic Development : Evidence from Catholic Saint Day Festivals in Mexico
Montero, Eduardo; Yang, Dean - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Societies worldwide spend substantial resources celebrating religious festivals. How do festivals influence economic and social outcomes? We study Catholic patron saint day festivals in Mexico, exploiting two features of the setting: (i) municipal festival dates vary across the calendar and were...
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Business Method Patents, Innovation, and Policy
Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2003
The trickle of business method patents issued by the United States Patent Office became a flood after the State Street Bank decision in 1998. Many scholars, both legal and economic, have critiqued both the quality of these patents and the decision itself. This paper discusses the likely impact...
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Understanding Media Markets in the Digital Age : Economics and Methodology
Danaher, Brett - 2013
Digitization raises a variety of important academic and managerial questions around firm strategies and public policies for the content industries, with many of these questions influenced by the erosion of copyright caused by Internet file-sharing. At the same time, digitization has created many...
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Accelerating Vaccine Innovation for Emerging Infectious Diseases via Parallel Discovery
Barberio, Joseph; Becraft, Jacob; Ben Chaouch, Zied; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We analyze the financial performance of a hypothetical portfolio of 120 mRNA vaccine candidates in the preclinical stage targeting 11 emerging infectious diseases. We calibrate the simulation parameters with input from domain experts in mRNA technology and an extensive literature review. We find...
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Tech-Driven Intermediation in the Originate-to-Distribute Model
He, Zhiguo; Jiang, Sheila; Xu, Douglas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper develops a general equilibrium model to examine the role of information technology when intermediaries facilitate the origination and distribution of assets given information asymmetry. Information technology measures the informativeness of asset-quality signals received by...
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Horatio Alger Meets the Mobility Tables
Holtz-Eakin, Douglas - 2000
The question of how entrepreneurship relates to income mobility is cogent given the current public debate about the … sources of income inequality and mobility in United States society. We examine how experience with entrepreneurship has … distribution over time, and to see how their mobility (or lack thereof) was affected by involvement with entrepreneurship. Our main …
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