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Do trademarks diminish the substitutability of products in innovative knowledge-intensive services?

Crass, Dirk; Schwiebacher, Franz - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

Trademarks are often supposed to reduce substitutability and imitability of product innovations. Using German CIS data for 2010, we provide empirical evidence that trademarking firms assess easy product substitutability as less characteristic for their competitive environment. This is...

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Vertical integration, separation and non-price discrimination: An empirical analysis of German electricity markets for residential customers

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

The literature on vertical integration in markets with regulated upstream prices suggests that the integrated upstream firm might engage in non-price discrimination. Several studies provide policy recommendations derived either from case study approaches or based on theoretical modeling which...

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Backwards integration and strategic delegation

Hunold, Matthias; Röller, Lars-Hendrik; Stahl, Konrad - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012

We analyze the effects of downstream firms' acquisition of pure cash flow rights in an efficient upstream supplier when all firms compete in prices. With an acquisition, downstream firms internalize the effects of their actions on their rivals' sales. Double marginalization is enhanced. Whereas...

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Forward integration and market entry: Evidence from natural gas markets for household customers in Germany

Nikogosian, Vigen; Weigand, Jürgen - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012

Due to potential abuse of the market power at wholesale and retail market level for natural gas the Federal Cartel Office in Germany prohibited further forward integration of gas importing firms with retail incumbents from 2005/2006 to 2010. The Authority argued that the very few dominant gas...

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Efficient contracts for government intervention in promoting next generation communications networks

Briglauer, Wolfgang; Holzleitner, Christian - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

intervention. We contend, however, that the current contract practice of fixing ex ante targets for network expansion is …

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International Coordination of Quality Standards and Vertical Product Differentiation

Lutz, Stefan - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2003

I study the influence of minimum quality standards in a partial-equilibrium model of vertical product differentiation and trade in which duopolistic firms face quality-dependent costs and compete in quality and price in two segmented markets. Three alternative standard setting arrangements are...

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Mutual Recognition of National Minimum Quality Standards may Support International Convergence

Lutz, Stefan - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2003

In a model of vertical product differentiation, duopolistic firms face qualitydependent costs and compete in quality and price in two segmented markets. Minimum quality standards, set according to the principle of Mutual Recognition, can be used to increase welfare. The results of the one-shot...

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Intermediate input markets, ICT and innovation in Germany: A firm level analysis

Cerquera, Daniel; Klein, Gordon J. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

This paper studies the impact of the adoption of ICT on the economic performance at the firm level, considering explicitly the interaction of adopting firms within the intermediate input market in Germany. The paper identifies and quantifies the importance of adoption externalities and knowledge...

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The impact on innovation off-shoring on organizational adaptability

Baier, Elisabeth; Rammer, Christian; Schuber, Torben - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

We analyze the effects of captive off-shoring of innovation activities on the firms' ability to adapt their … Community Innovation Survey to test our hypotheses. We find an inverted u-shape of innovation off-shoring on the effectiveness … of organizational adaptability, implying an optimal threshold value of innovation off-shoring. This value is 11% for …

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How important is industry-specific managerial experience for innovative firm performance?

Balsmeier, Benjamin; Czarnitzki, Dirk - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

This study examines how industry-specific managerial experience affects firms' innovation performance in the context of …

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