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Minimum wages and competition: The case of the German roofing sector

Kraft, Kornelius; Rammer, Christian; Gottschalk, Sandra - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012

This paper analyses the effects of minimum wages on competition in the German roofing sector. The case is particularly … competition for this group of firms and helped them to increase profitability. The increasing share of sole traders may indicate … wage. In the western part of the country minimum wages had no impact on competition. …

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The R&D Investment-Uncertainty Relationship: Do Competition and Firm Size Matter?

Toole, Andrew A.; Czarnitzki, Dirk - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008

This paper investigates how competition and firm size affect the relationship between market uncertainty and R …

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Screening instruments for monitoring market power in wholesale electricity markets: Lessons from applications in Germany

Bataille, Marc; Steinmetz, Alexander; Thorwarth, Susanne - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

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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Market structure and market performance in e-commerce

Hackl, Franz; Kummer, Michael E.; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012

' entry decisions in the past. We find that instrumenting is particularly important for estimating the effect of competition …

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The construction of a low cost airline network

Hüschelrath, Kai; Müller, Kathrin; Bilotkach, Volodymyr - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011

The paper investigates the construction of a low cost airline network by analyzing JetBlue Airways' entry decisions into nonstop domestic U.S. airport-pair markets between 2000 and 2009. Adopting duration models with time-varying covariates, we find that JetBlue consistently avoided concentrated...

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Strategic pricing, market entry and competition: Evidence from German electricity submarkets

Nikogosian, Vigen; Veith, Tobias - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011

instrument to affect competition, in terms of market entries, in the related market. We theoretically derive the optimal price …

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Market structure and market performance in e-commerce

Hackl, Franz; Kummer, Michael E.; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011

' entry decisions in the past. We find that instrumenting is particularly important for estimating the effect of competition …

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Targeted advertising in magazine markets

Chandra, Ambarish; Kaiser, Ulrich - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010

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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99 cent: Price points in e-commerce

Hackl, Franz; Kummer, Michael E.; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010

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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Capital Control, Debt Financing and Innovative Activity

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Kraft, Kornelius - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2004

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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