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We study a consumer non-sequential search oligopoly model with search cost heterogeneity. We first prove that an …
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oligopoly and present a new maximum likelihood method to estimate search costs. We apply our method to a data set of online …
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We study road supply by competing firms between a single origin and destination. In previous studies, firms simultaneously set their tolls and capacities while taking the actions of the others as given in a Nash fashion. Then, under some widely used technical assumptions, firms set a...
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We consider an oligopolistic market where firms compete in price and quality and where consumers are heterogeneous in knowledge: some consumers know both the prices and quality of the products offered, some know only the prices and some know neither. We show that two types of signalling...
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This paper presents an empirical examination of oligopoly pricing and consumer search. The theoretical model allows for …
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We present an oligopoly model where a certain fraction of consumers engage in costly non-sequential search to discover …, duopoly yields identical expected price and price dispersion but higher welfare than an infinite number of firms.<BR><BR> …
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is severe. In a symmetric Bertrand oligopoly where products may differ only in their quality, production cost is …
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We modify the paper of Stahl (1989) [Stahl, D.O., 1989. Oligopolistic pricing with sequential consumer search. American Economic Review 79, 700–12] by relaxing the assumption that consumers obtain the first price quotation for free. When all price quotations are costly to obtain, the unique...
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This paper analyses the national tax treatment of interest expenditures of multinational enterprises in a non- cooperative world. It is shown that the international tax system generally leads to distortions in the capital decisions of multinational firms. In contrast to the existing literature...
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In Europe, company cars are offered by employers as fringe benefits to their employees at a lower price than employees pay in the car market, mainly due to favourable taxation of company cars. We analyse the welfare effects of favourable taxation of company cars for the Netherlands. The...
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