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From Mind to Market: A Global, Dynamic Analysis of R&D

Hinloopen, Jeroen; Smrkolj, Grega; Wagener, Florian - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

This discussion paper resulted in a publication in the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control (2013), 37(12), 2729-2754. Existing models of R&D are not easily reconciled with four observable aspects of R&D: initial technologies ('ideas') need to be developed further, only a minority of initial...

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Can market power be controlled by regulation of core prices alone?: An empirical analysis of airport demand and car rental price

Czerny, Achim I.; Shi, Zijun; Zhang, Anming - Tinbergen Instituut - 2015

a major share in total revenue, monopoly regulation typically concentrates on the control of core-good prices (“core …

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Single-Till versus Dual-Till Regulation of Airports

Czerny, Achim I.; Zhang, Anmin - Tinbergen Instituut - 2015

Most airports operate under public ownership, while some are privatized and economically regulated. Only a few airports are privately owned and experience little or no ex-ante regulation of airport charges. On the other hand, airports nowadays earn as much revenue from transport-related...

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International Environmental Agreements for River Sharing Problems

Houba, Harold; Laan, Gerard van der; Zeng, Yuyu - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013

formation, in one of these regions there is a positive probability that the upstream agents form a monopoly. Third, there are …

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Customer Directed Advertising and Product Quality

Esteban, Lola; Hernandez, Jose M.; Moraga-Gonzalez, … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2001

This paper studies the relationship between three key elements of the marketing mix, namely, price, product, and promotion, in a model where a seller employs informative advertising to launch a new product. We propose a fairly general advertising technology for the study of three promotional...

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Third-degree Price Discrimination in the Presence of Congestion Externality

Czerny, Achim I.; Zhang, Anming - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

This paper analyzes third-degree price discrimination of a monopoly airline in the presence of congestion externality …

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Competing Transport Networks

Leij, Marco J. van der - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003

faces competition from a slower but betteraccessible transport mode. To access the fast transport network individuals haveto … presence of competition the profit-maximizingand socially optimal decision would be to cluster the two stations. Bycontrast, in … the absence of competition both a profit-maximizing firm and a socialplanner would locate the two stations on opposite …

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Does Relative Grading help Male Students? Evidence from a Field Experiment in the Classroom

Czibor, Eszter; Onderstal, Sander; Sloof, Randolph; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

The provision of non-pecuniary incentives in education is a topic that has received much scholarly attention lately. Our paper contributes to this discussion by investigating the effectiveness of grade incentives in increasing student performance. We perform a direct comparison of the two most...

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Oligopolistic Competition in Price and Quality

Dubovik, Andrei; Janssen, Maarten C.W. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008

This discussion paper led to an article in Games and Economic Behavior (2012), pp. 120-138. 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,...

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Competition and Well-Being

Brandts, Jordi; Riedl, Arno; Winden, Frans van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004

We study the effects of competition in a context in which people's actions can not be contractually fixed. We find that … in such an environment the very presence of competition does neither increase efficiency nor does it yield any payoff … gains for the short side of the market. We also find that competition has a strong negative impact on social well-being, the …

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