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Selling Strategic Information in Digital Competitive Markets

Bounie, David - 2018

This paper investigates the strategies of a data broker in selling information to one or to two competing firms that can price-discriminate consumers. The data broker can strategically choose any segment of the consumer demand (information structure) to sell to firms that implement third-degree...

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Investment in Productivity and the Long-Run Effect of Financial Crisis on Output

Ridder, Maarten de - 2017

suggests that a shortfall in productivity-enhancing investments temporarily slows technological progress, creating a gap … the Global Financial Crisis, I show that tight credit reduced investments in productivity-enhancement, and significantly ….2% higher today if productivity-enhancing investment intensity had remained at its pre-crisis level …

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Industrial Espionage and Productivity

Glitz, Albrecht - 2017

's foreign intelligence service to sector-specific gaps in total factor productivity (TFP) between West and East Germany. Based …

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Ideas Production and International Knowledge Spillovers : Digging Deeper into Emerging Countries

Luintel, Kul - 2018

Research and Development (R&D) activities of emerging countries (EMEs) have increased considerably in recent years. Recent micro studies and anecdotal evidence points to industrialized countries as the sources of knowledge in EMEs. In this context, we examine ideas production and international...

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Market Structure, Technological Gap and Vertical Linkage Effects from Foreign Direct Investment

Kadochnikov, Sergey; Drapkin, Igor M. - 2021

This paper is based on the model of backward linkages from foreign direct investment (FDI) Lin/Saggi (2003), where the market structure of the final goods sector is represented by a monopoly or Cournot oligopoly, and the supplier sector - by a pure monopoly. We extend this model by examining...

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How to Share it Out : The Value of Information in Teams

Gershkov, Alex - 2014

We study the role of information exchange, leadership and coordination in team or partnership structures. For this purpose, we view individuals jointly engaging in productive processes — a ‘team' — as endowed with individual and privately held information on the joint production process....

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The Value of Technology Improvements in Games with Externalities : A Fresh Look at Offsetting Behavior

Hoy, Michael - 2015

How should we evaluate the welfare implications of improvements to safety technologies in the presence of offsetting behavior? We model this problem as a symmetric game in which each player's payoff depends on his own action and the average action of the other players, and analyze under which...

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Political Polarization and the Electoral Effects of Media Bias

Bernhardt, Dan; Krasa, Stefan; Polborn, Mattias - 2021

Many political commentators diagnose an increasing polarization of the U.S. electorate into two opposing camps. However, in standard spatial voting models, changes in the political preference distribution are irrelevant as long as the position of the median voter does not change. We show that...

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Voting as a Signaling Device

Aytimur, R. Emre; Boukouras, Aristotelis; Schwager, Robert - CESifo - 2012

In this paper, citizens vote in order to influence the election outcome and in order to signal their unobserved characteristics to others. The model is one of rational voting and generates the following predictions: (i) The paradox of not voting does not arise, because the benefit of voting does...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009416121

How to Share it out: The Value of Information in Teams

Gershkov, Alex; Li, Jianpei; Schweinzer, Paul - CESifo - 2014

We study the role of information exchange, leadership and coordination in team or partnership structures. For this purpose, we view individuals jointly engaging in productive processes—a ‘team’—as endowed with individual and privately held information on the joint production process....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010812489

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