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This paper generalizes the frequently used Hotelling model for two-sided markets in order to determine the equilibrium market shares. We show that advertisement levels depend neither on the media price nor on the location of the media firm. An increase in advertising revenues does not change...
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This paper examines the use of market-share thresholds (safe harbors) in evaluating whether a given vertical practice should be challenged. Such thresholds are typically found in vertical restraints guidelines (e.g., the 2000 Guidelines for the European Commission and the 1985 Guidelines for the...
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the viewers' equilibrium demand for high quality content. We find that, although consumers dislike advertisements, an …
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and labour and its relation to derived demand. The resulting formula has proven very useful in understanding the derived … demand for productive factors, the distribution of factor incomes, and Marshall's Four Rules. This short paper notes that a …
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Firms adjust to differences in market size and demand uncertainty by changing the frequency and size of their export … shipments. In our inventory model, transportation costs and optimal shipment frequency are determined on the basis of demand as …
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In this paper we explore the role that demand uncertainty plays for the offshoring decision, and the role that … demand. The presence of a cost of firing or hiring as in Bagliano & Bertola (2004) generates an intertemporal element to a …
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In this paper we conduct a counterfactual analysis and estimate the quantitative importance of demand and supply … isolate the impact of capital-skill complementarity (i.e., demand effects) and varying skill-specific labor supply (i …
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, and the demand for private and public child care are simultaneously endogenized and intertemporally determined. We …
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unpredictable (and unobservable) fluctuations in demand for life insurance as well as changes in risk type (observable) over … individuals' lifetimes. The presence of demand type heterogeneity leads to the possibility that optimal GR contracts may have a … whose type turns out to be high risk but low demand renew more of their GR insurance than is efficient due to the attractive …
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This study examines if couples time their work hours and how this work timing influences child care demand and the time … small. Finally, work timing behavior affects the demand for informal child care, but not the demand for formal child care …
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