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overvalues a product attribute - quality or price - that stands out in a particular choice situation. In a highly competitive low-price … environment like on an online platform, consumers focus more on price rather than quality. Especially if the market power of local … (physical) retailers is low, price tends to be salient also in the local store, which is unfavorable for the high …
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This paper studies the interactions between the structure of product demand, relative wages, and the allocation of economic activity across two sectors. The agrarian sector produces a homogeneous good and consists of informal firms employing adults and children. The modern sector produces a...
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We study a two-sided markets model of two competing television stations that offer content of differentiated quality to ad-averse consumers and advertising space to firms. As all consumers prefer high over low quality content, competition for viewers is vertical. By contrast, competition for...
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A standard result in the optimal taxation literature is that, when agents differ in market ability and the government aims at redistributing from high - to low-skilled agents by means of an optimal nonlinear labor income tax and a set of commodity taxes, an optimally designed commodity tax...
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