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The paper investigates the construction of a low cost airline network by analyzing JetBlue Airways' entry decisions … also affected entry positively. For non-stop entry into a route that has not been served on a non-stop basis before, our … network carriers. Non-stop entry into existing non-stop markets, however, shows that JetBlue concentrated on longer …
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by a major hardware producer for consumer electronics. We observe input prices of firms, and all their moves in the entry …' entry decisions in the past. We find that instrumenting is particularly important for estimating the effect of competition …
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by a major hardware producer for consumer electronics. We observe input prices of firms, and all their moves in the entry …' entry decisions in the past. We find that instrumenting is particularly important for estimating the effect of competition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646609
While liberalization in energy markets has been a widely successful process all over the world, incumbents often still hold a dominant position. Thus, electricity wholesale markets are subject to market surveillance. Nevertheless, consolidated findings on abusive practices of market power and...
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This paper analyses the effects of minimum wages on competition in the German roofing sector. The case is particularly interesting since this sector is faced with a uniform minimum wage despite significant regional disparities in productivity and wages. As a control industry we take the plumbing...
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market entry whereas for high consumption level customers we have to reject our hypothesis. …
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We examine the scope and value of targeted advertising in the magazine industry. We use data on reader characteristics at individual media, in contrast to previous work that has needed to infer this information from aggregate data. Our results show a strong relationship between subscriber...
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Basu (2006) argues that the prevalence of 99 cent prices in shops can be explained with rational consumers who disregard the rightmost digits of the price. This bounded rational behaviour leads to a Bertrand equilibrium with positive markups. We use data from an Austrian price comparison site...
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The present paper first discusses theoretically the different incentives of manager- versus owner-controlled firms for investment into innovative activity. In addition, the role of debt financing is analyzed. Subsequently the results from an empirical study on the determinants of innovative...
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I derive and estimate a model for cover price setting in print media markets where actors are faced by two interrelated demand curves: the demand for the print medium and the demand for advertising space. Publicly available data on German women?s magazines observed between 1998 and 2001 are used...
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