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Monopoly
Kempe, Wolfram - 1996
This is the first chapter of a graduate text entitled Topics in Microeconomics. It covers the basics of monopoly theory … time consistency problem ("durable goods monopoly"), and how the basic theory of third-degree price discrimination needs to … be modified accordingly. The Chapter closes with the noncooperative bargaining theory of bilateral monopoly and suggests …
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A note on optimal stopping in models with delay
Gapeev, P. V. (contributor); Reiß, M. (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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E-privacy : evaluating a new search cost in online environments
Annacker, Dirk; Spiekermann, Sarah; Strobel, Martin - 2001
Electronic Commerce environments increasingly witness a conflict on the subject of e-privacy: While marketers want to maximize their customer knowledge and grasp the identity of their online users, consumers often want to stay anonymous and not reveal private information. The conflict suggests...
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Using private job agencies : optimal screening or cream skimming?
Kübler, Dorothea - 1997
In a model with private information of the worker about her ability and unobservable effort choice, the role of public and private employment services is analyzed. The coexistence of an inefficient employment exchange and an efficient private agency may lead to optimal screening with first best...
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Private information, risk aversion, and the evolution of market research
Güth, Sandra; Güth, Werner; Müller, Wieland - 2000
On a homogeneous oligopoly market informed sellers are fully aware of market demand whereas uninformed sellers only know the distribution. We first derive the market results when sellers are risk averse, similarly to Ponssard (1979) who assumed risk neutrality throughout. With the help of these...
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Externalities in the matching of workers and firms in Britain
Burgess, Simon M.; Profit, Stefan - 1998
theory. For example, we find that conditional on local labour market conditions, high unemployment levels in neighbouring …
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Drivers and impediments of consumer online information search : self-controlled versus agent-based search in a high involvement context
Spiekermann, Sarah; Strobel, Martin; Temme, Dirk - 2002
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Quantile hedging
Föllmer, Hans; Leukert, Peter - 1998
In a complete financial market every contingent claim can be hedged perfectly. In an incomplete market it is possible to stay on the safe side by superhedging. But such strategies may require a large amount of initial capital. Here we study the question what an investor can do who is unwilling...
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On model based seasonal adjustment procedures
Breitung, Jörg - 1998
In this note the unobserved component approach underlying the software package SEATS is compared with the Beveridge-Nelson type of decomposition for seasonal time series. The main strength of the SEATS approach lies in the appealing model formulation and the careful specification and adjustment...
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The monetary model of the exchange rate : a structural interpretation
Moersch, Mathias; Nautz, Dieter - 1998
We emphasize the importance of properly identifying the long-run relations underlying the monetary model of the exchange rate. The separate estimation of long-run money demands leads to a "structural" error correction equation which allows an interpretation of the various channels affecting the...
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