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Famdata : Database for Family Business Companies in Germany Covering Company Key Figures and Survey Data
Garnitz, Johanna; Maltzan, Annette von; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2023
FamData is a database covering family businesses and non-family businesses across various size classes and branches containing structural and financial information. The ifo Institute assembled a business panel with executives from almost 4,000 companies. In addition to the “hard” business...
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Do Retail Investors Value Environmental Impact? A Lab-in-The-Field Experiment with Crowdfunders
Siemroth, Christoph; Hornuf, Lars - 2021
Are investors willing to give up a higher return if the investment generates positive environmental impact? We investigate this question with a decision experiment among crowdfunders, where they choose between a higher return or environmental impact. Overall, 65% of investors choose...
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The Pass-Through of Temporary VAT Rate Cuts : Evidence from German Supermarket Retail
Fuest, Clemens; Neumeier, Florian; Stöhlker, Daniel - 2021
competition. Pass-through of the VAT reduction was higher in product groups with a large number of competing products. We …
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The Impact of Private Label Introduction on Assortment, Prices, and Profits of Retailers
Ma, Meilin; Siebert, Ralph - 2021
We study how the introduction of private-label brands (PLs) affects retailers’ prices, demand, and profits, explicitly accounting for assortment adjustments of national brands (NBs) in retail stores. Using a detailed dataset on the U.S. beef market, we find that, when PLs are added to the...
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Inflation Hedging on Main Street? Evidence from Retail Tips Fund Flows
Nagel, Stefan; Yan, Zhen (Zach) - 2022
Households participating in financial markets pay attention to inflation news when making their investment decisions, even in an environment of mostly low and stable inflation. ETFs and open-ended mutual funds holding Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS) receive inflows from retail...
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Crypto Trading and Bitcoin Prices : Evidence from a New Database of Retail Adoption
Auer, Raphael; Cornelli, Giulio; Doerr, Sebastian; … - 2023
Prices for cryptocurrencies have undergone multiple boom-bust cycles, together with ongoing entry by retail investors. To investigate the drivers of crypto adoption, we assemble a novel database (made available with this paper) on retail use of crypto exchange apps at daily frequency for 95...
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The Pandemic, Cash and Retail Payment Behaviour : Insights from the Future of Payments Database
Auer, Raphael; Cornelli, Giulio; Frost, Jon - 2023
The Covid-19 pandemic has been a shock to retail payment behaviour. How have the changes differed across countries? What do they imply for the future of cash and digital payments? We assemble a new “Future of Payments” database on retail payment behaviour for up to 95 countries over...
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Promotion Ban and Heterogeneity in Retail Prices During the Great Lockdown
Hindriks, Jean; Madio, Leonardo; Serse, Valerio - 2021
We study the impact of the Belgium lockdown on retail prices using a unique dataset tracking daily prices and promotions for various products in different stores and retail chains. Two distinctive features of our analysis are the ban on promotions during the first two weeks of the lockdown, and...
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Competition and waiting times in hospital markets
Brekke, Kurt R.; Siciliani, Luigi; Straume, Odd Rune - 2007
This paper studies the impact of hospital competition on waiting times. We use a Salop-type model, with hospitals that … from the closest hospital (monopoly segment). Compared with a benchmark case of monopoly, we find that hospital competition … hospital competition, the effect of increased competition depends on the parameter of measurement: Lower travelling costs …
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Regulating national firms in a common market
Biancini, Sara - 2008
that supranational competition can have very different consequences on the rent seeking behaviour of firms, depending on …
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