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Do People Value More Informative New?
Chopra, Felix - 2020
We examine whether the desire for more information is people's dominant motive for reading economic and political news. Drawing on representative samples of the U.S. population with more than 15,000 respondents in total, we measure and experimentally vary people's beliefs about the...
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Strategic Limitation of Market Accessibility : Search Platform Design and Welfare
Teh, Chris; Wang, Chengsi; Watanabe, Makoto - 2023
This paper explores the relationship between market accessibility and various participants’ welfare in an intermediated directed-search market. For a general class of meeting technologies, we provide a necessary and sufficient condition under which efficiency requires imperfect accessibility,...
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The Competitive Effects of Declining Entry Costs Over Time : Evidence from the Static Random Access Memory Market
Liu, An-Hsiang - 2020
We focus on the estimation of market entry costs that are declining over time and evaluate their impact on competition and market performance. We employ a dynamic oligopoly model in which firms make entry, exit, and production decisions in the presence of declining entry costs and learning by...
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Exchange Competition, Entry, and Welfare
Cespa, Giovanni - 2019
We integrate a market microstructure model with an exchange competition model with entry in which exchanges supply technological services that enhance market participation, and have market power. We find that technological services can be strategic substitutes or complements in platform...
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Welfare-Enhancing Trade Unions in an Oligopoly with Excessive Entry
de Pinto, Marco - 2019
Trade unions are often argued to cause allocative inefficiencies and to lower welfare. We analyze whether this evaluation is also justified in a Cournot-oligopoly with free but costly entry. If input markets are competitive and output per firm declines with the number of firms (business...
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Trade Costs, Market Access and Economic Geography : Why the Empirical Specification of Trade Costs Matters
Bosker, Erik Maarten; Garretsen, Harry - 2021
Trade costs are crucial in new economic geography (NEG) models. The unavailability of actual trade costs data requires the approximation of trade costs. Most NEG studies do not deal with the ramifications of the particular trade costs specification used. This paper shows that the specification...
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Entrepreneurial innovations and taxation
Haufler, Andreas; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - 2011
In many countries entrepreneurship is promoted through tax reductions for small businesses and by various government support schemes. We analyze the effects of such policies to subsidize small businesses in a setting where both the risk-return characteristics of the selected innovation project...
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Price equalization does not imply free trade
Mutreja, Piyusha; Ravikumar, B.; Riezman, Raymond; … - 2013
In this paper we show that price equalization alone is not sufficient to determine the barriers to international trade …. There are many barrier combinations that deliver price equalization, but each combination implies a different volume of … goods will deliver price equalization in capital goods, but cannot reproduce the observed trade flows. …
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Credence Goods Markets and the Informational Value of New Media : A Natural Field Experiment
Kerschbamer, Rudolf - 2019
causal effect of information acquisition from new media on the level of sellers' price charges for computer repairs. We find … clearly misleading effect, because non-recommended positive ratings increase the price …
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Investors' Trading Behaviour and Stock Market Volatility During Crisis Periods : A Dual Long-Memory Model for the Korean Stock Exchange
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2020
This study examines the impact of investors' buy and sell trades on Korean stock market volatility across two crisis events, the Asian crisis of 1997 and the 2008 global financial crash. We investigate the trading behaviour of domestic vs. foreign and institutional vs. individual investors. Our...
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