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Integrated Versus Segmented Markets : Implications for Export Pricing and Welfare
Becker, Raphael; Nigai, Sergey; Seidel, Tobias - 2021
This paper challenges the common assumption of market segmentation in international trade. To analyze export entry and pricing decisions of firms in integrated vs. segmented markets, we develop a novel tractable approach based on stochastic export costs that allows us to compare firm-level and...
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Coordinated Capacity Reductions and Public Communication in the Airline Industry
Aryal, Gaurab - 2020
We investigate whether legacy U.S. airlines communicated via earnings calls to coordinate with other legacy airlines in offering fewer seats on competitive routes. To this end, we first use text analytics to build a novel dataset on communication among airlines about their capacity choices....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012840697
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Airline Alliances and Service Quality
Brueckner, Jan K. - 2018
Convenient scheduling, characterized by adequate flight frequency, is the main quality attribute for airline services …. However, the effect of airline alliances on this important dimension of service quality has received almost no attention in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908676
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Airline Schedule Buffers and Flight Delays : A Discrete Model
Czerny, Achim I. - 2020
This paper revisits the airline schedule-buffer choice problem analyzed by Brueckner, Czerny and Gaggero (2020) using a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012823555
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Pricing by International Airline Alliances : A Retrospective Study Using Supplementary Foreign-Carrier Fare Data
Brueckner, Jan K. - 2019
This study provides further empirical evidence on pricing by international airline alliances. The paper covers a long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866395
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IO for Export(s)
Mrazova, Monika - 2019
We provide an overview and synthesis of recent work on models of monopolistic competition with heterogeneous firms in international trade, paying particular attention to competition effects, pass-through, selection effects, and linking distributions of firm characteristics and outcomes. A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012858197
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Chinese Aid and Health at the Country and Local Level
Cruzatti C., John - 2020
We investigate whether and to what extent Chinese development finance affects infant mortality, combining 92 demographic and health surveys (DHS) for a maximum of 53 countries and almost 55,000 sub-national locations over the 2002-2014 period. We address causality by instrumenting aid with a set...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012831648
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Social Organizations and Political Institutions : Why China and Europe Diverged
Mokyr, Joel; Tabellini, Guido - 2023
This paper discusses the historical and social origins of the bifurcation in the political institutions of China and … Western Europe. An important factor, recognized in the literature, is that China centralized state institutions very early on … different social organizations (clans in China, corporate structures in Europe) that spread in these two societies at the turn …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014357030
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Job mobility and the gender wage gap in Italy
Del Bono, Emilia; Vuri, Daniela - 2008
This paper investigates the way in which job mobility contributes to the emergence of a gender wage gap in the Italian labour market. We show that men experience higher wage growth than women during the first 10 years of their career, and that this difference is particularly large when workers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271608
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Why so unhappy? : The effects of unionisation on job satisfaction
Bryson, Alex; Cappellari, Lorenzo; Lucifora, Claudio - 2005
We use linked employer-employee data to investigate the job satisfaction effect of unionisation in Britain. We depart from previous studies by developing a model that simultaneously controls for the endogeneity of union membership and union recognition. We show that a negative association...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261150