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This paper empirically investigates the advertising competition in the French broadcast television industry within a … oligopoly competition and identify the shape and magnitude of the feedback loop between TV viewers and advertisers. We also … implement a simple procedure to identify the conduct of firms on the market. We find that the nature of competition in the …
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Niobium is a highly strategic mineral, in which Brazil holds almost all of the world's reserves followed by Canada. Niobium has an important role in steel alloys for the aerospace industry and future potential for the industry's superconductors. The present paper investigates the prevailing...
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competition by a competitive fringe that produces low quality. We show that the brand manufacturer optimally provides a decoy good …
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its competitiveness and decreased exports towards its European trading partners. Our findings do not provide empirical …
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are expected to have on international competitiveness. The method is then applied to the case of Belgium …
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When countries compete for the location of a new multinational plant they need to be aware of the profit shifting opportunities this new plant creates for the global multinational firm. By modelling explicitly the multinational's intra-firm transactions, we show that the home market advantage...
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The paper provides an equilibrium analysis of how countries compete for migrants. The type of competition (tax or … transfer competition) depends on whether the competing countries have similar policy preferences. With symmetric preferences …, countries compete in taxes for migrants. With asymmetric preferences, migration competition takes place in income support levels …
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This paper studies the effect of Finnish tax reforms in the mid 1990s on the economic activity and tax avoidance decisions of the owners of small businesses. The reforms reduced income tax rates and increased tax planning incentives for small business owners. They applied only to unincorporated...
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We analyse how state university competition to collect resources may affect both research and the quality of teaching …
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We explore the determinants and effects of trust relationships between upstream suppliers and downstream producers. Using unique survey data on individual supplier-buyer relationships in the German automotive industry, we show, by means of different measures of supplier-buyer trust, that higher...
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