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Mergers between regulated firms with unknown efficiency gains

Fiocco, Raffaele; Guo, Dongyu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

informational problems. We show that, as a consequence of this trade-off, more intense competition in unregulated segments of the … can lead to a softer merger policy when competition is weaker. …

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CRM Implementation: A Descriptive Study of the Service Industry in Pakistan

Khan, Sana Akbar; Qureshi, Salman Ali; Hunjra, Ahmed Imran - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

customization. The aim is to analyze the degree to which service firms utilize CRM technology, customize services and store customer … helps in increasing organizational performance. However, customization is not always the practice of the service firms. …

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Search duplication in research and design spaces - Exploring the role of local competition

Konrad, Kai A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

research. We show that this problem can be solved by local competition (such as bribery, lobbying, rent seeking, competition at … the patent office) among players who apply the same search strategies or develop the same design. Such competition can … restore full efficiency in the non-cooperative equilibrium. Local competition interacts with the choice of whether to cluster …

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Locating inside the Salop circle: Demand rotations in a micro-founded model

Bar-Isaac, Heski; Caruana, Guillermo; Cuñat, Vicente - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

We present a micro-founded model of design, that provides a framework in which design leads to demand rotations. We show simple sufficient conditions that determine when design should be extreme (fully standardized or fully tailored) or rather be only partially tailored.

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Niche products, generic products, and consumer search

Larson, Nathan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

We endogenize product differentiation in a model of sequential search with random firm-consumer match value à la Wolinsky (1986) and Anderson and Renault (1999). We focus on a product design choice by which a firm can control the dispersion of consumer valuations for its product; we interpret...

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Information Asymmetry and the Market Response to Open Market Share Repurchases

Lee, Bong Soo; Mauck, Nathan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This paper proposes a new measure of firm information asymmetry. The information asymmetry measure is based on causality tests relating repurchase information to firm returns. Our results indicate that firms with greater information asymmetry show larger abnormal returns surrounding the...

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Le Financement des PME au Cameroun dans un Contexte de Crise Financière

NGUENA, Christian L. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Still today Cameroon is suffering from a shy landscape of entrepreneurship and a private sector constituted at 90% by SMEs confronted to a lack of funding; The situation tends to increase with the advent of financial crisis. It is in this framework that this study tries to make an identification...

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The information asymmetries and consumer policy issues in Bulgaria

Nikolov, Bogomil; Vasileva, Elka; Ivanova, Daniela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

An identification and analysis of practices for providing consumer information in Bulgaria and their potential to disclose information about products to consumers are presented. Third party certification, labelling and comparative testing of products has been proven to effectively contribute for...

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Pay What You Want – But Pay Enough! Information Asymmetries and PWYW Pricing

Greiff, Matthias; Egbert, Henrik; Xhangolli, Kreshnik - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Pay What You Want (PWYW) pricing has received considerable attention recently. Empirical studies show that when PWYW pricing is implemented buyers do not behave selfishly in a number of cases and that some sellers are able to use PWYW to increase turnover as well as profits. In this paper we...

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Quality labeling and information asymmetry: identification of quality labeling certification schemes in Bulgaria

Nikolov, Bogomil; Vassileva, Elka; Ivanova, Daniela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Third party certification provides assurance to consumers that the information supplied by firms is correct. Consumers may question the validity of the information provided by firms, particularly for credence goods. Third party certification provides consumers with an objective evaluation of the...

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