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We study competition among a score of firms participating in an online market for a commodity computer component. Firms were able to adjust prices continuously; prices determined how the firms were ranked and listed (lowest price listed first), with better ranks contributing to firms’ sales....
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distribution. Entrepreneurs strongly affect firm growth patterns of both very young firms and for firms that have begun to mature …
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This paper develops a model of a monopolistically competitive industry with extensive and intensive business investment … and shows how these margins respond to changes in average and marginal corporate tax rates. Intensive investment refers to … the size of a firm’s capital stock. Extensive investment refers to the firm’s production location and reflects the trade …
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We study price dynamics for computer components sold on a price-comparison website. Our fine-grained data — a year of hourly price data for scores of rival retailers — allow us to estimate a dynamic model of competition, backing out structural estimates of managerial frictions. The estimated...
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distribution. Entrepreneurs strongly affect firm growth patterns of both very young firms and for firms that have begun to mature …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087281
We study competition among a score of firms participating in an online market for a commodity computer component. Firms were able to adjust prices continuously; prices determined how the firms were ranked and listed (lowest price listed first), with better ranks contributing to firms' sales....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013057184
’s investment of endogenous size. Using a real option approach in continuous time, we show that profit sharing does not affect a … total investment. We also evaluate the reduction in the firm’s value due to profit sharing, linking this reduction to the …
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The paper studies the interaction between cyclical uncertainty and investment in a stochastic real option framework … of the link between cyclical uncertainty and investment is quantified using simulations of the model. The chief …
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random walk benchmark in an out-of-sample environment. Second, lags of investment growth, crude oil price growth and realized … volatility is found to be adequate predictors for the investment growth. Finally, there is a clear benefit from re-estimating the …We investigate the potential for statistical forecasting of aggregate oil and gas investment on the Norwegian …
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The paper studies the interaction between cyclical uncertainty and investment in a stochastic real option framework … of the link between cyclical uncertainty and investment is quantified using simulations of the model. The chief …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013156881