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framework and firm-level prices and quantities data for detailed products allowing us to both measure demand, and its changes …. This in turn allows us to measure how changes in TFP-Q, demand and markups ultimately affected revenue TFP, as well as …-recession is due to both a weakening of demand and a decreasing TFP-Q pushing down sales, markups, revenue TFP and labour …
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framework and firm-level prices and quantities data for detailed products allowing us to both measure demand, and its changes …. This in turn allows us to measure how changes in TFP-Q, demand and markups ultimately affected revenue TFP, as well as …-recession is due to both a weakening of demand and a decreasing TFP-Q pushing down sales, markups, revenue TFP and labour …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012425661
We analyze vertical product differentiation in a model where a good's quality is unobservable to buyers before purchase, a continuum of quality levels is technologically feasible, and minimum quality is supplied under competitive conditions. After purchase the true quality of the good is...
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This paper analyzes the generalized quality differentiation model in multi-sided markets with positive externalities, which leads to new insights into the optimal pricing structure of the firm. We find that quality differentiation for users on one side affects not only the side involving...
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Recent trade agreements have shifted their focus to non-tariff barriers such as regulations and product standards, which have been traditionally treated as pure domestic policies. The imposition of such standards reallocates production from small to large, high quality firms. We model...
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This paper studies the interactions between the structure of product demand, relative wages, and the allocation of … labour as well. Differences in tastes and incomes across households generate demand for both high-quality varieties and the …
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We propose a theory of indebted demand, capturing the idea that large debt burdens by households and governments lower … aggregate demand, and thus natural interest rates. At the core of the theory is the simple yet under-appreciated observation … lead to indebted household demand, pushing down natural interest rates. Moreover, popular expansionary policies—such as …
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We develop a new econometric framework that simultaneously allows recovering heterogeneity in demand, TFP and markups … quantify TFP, demand and markups and show how they are correlated among them, across time and with measures obtained from other …
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because they sell higher demand/quality products. Finally, while the correlation between firm revenue TFP and firm size is …
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-to-firm sales between Indian firms. The estimated model implies that a 10% decline in inter-state border frictions in India leads to …
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