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Salience in retailing : vertical restraints on internet sales

Helfrich, Magdalena; Herweg, Fabian - 2017 - This version: August 14, 2017

We provide an explanation for a frequently observed vertical restraint in ecommerce, namely that brand manufacturers …-quality product and limits the wholesale price a brand manufacturer can charge. If, however, the branded product is not available … price is salient in the store, this aligns the retailer's incentives with the brand manufacturer's interest to make quality …

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Fast fashion : theory and evidence from Portuguese textile and clothing firms

Fernandes, Ana; Tang, Heiwai - 2020

-income markets. These changes in export patterns imply that advanced economies become more specialized in "fast-fashion" - exporting …

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Umbrella branding and the provision of quality

Hakenes, Hendrik (contributor); Peitz, Martin (contributor) - 2004

the firm sells both products under the same brand name, consumers adjust their beliefs about quality subject to the … markets and that even unprofitable products may be used to stabilize the umbrella brand. However, umbrella branding does not …

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Does cost sharing really reduce inappropriate prescriptions?

Costa-Font, Joan; Gemmill-Toyama, Marin - 2010

This paper explores different empirical strategies to examine the effect of cost sharing for prescription drugs in some dimensions of medication-related quality, namely the probability of inappropriate prescription drug use among United States seniors. Using data from 1996 to 2005, we explore...

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Controlling product risks when consumers are heterogeneously overconfident : producer liability vs. minimum quality standard regulation

Baniak, Andrzejj; Grajzl, Peter - 2014

exclusive use of either mode of social control of torts. …

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The end of tourist traps : a natural experiment on the impact of tripadvisor on quality upgrading

Donati, Dante - 2022

Asymmetric information can distort market outcomes. I study how the online disclosure of information affects consumers' behavior and firms' incentives to upgrade product quality in markets where information is traditionally limited. I first build a model of consumer search with firms' endogenous...

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The importance of consumer taste in trade

Aw, Bee-yan; Lee, Yi; Vandenbussche, Hylke - 2019

This paper documents the importance of consumer taste in trade flows using Belgian firm-product customs data by destination. We identify consumer taste through the use of a control function approach and estimate it jointly with other demand parameters using a very flexible demand specification....

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Animal welfare, moral consumers and the optimal regulation of animal food production

Eichner, Thomas; Runkel, Marco - 2022

Within a general equilibrium model, this paper identifies a novel animal welfare externality that occurs if the private animal friendliness in a market economy falls short of the social animal friendliness used by the social planner when determining the efficient allocation. The animal welfare...

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Quantifying consumer taste in trade : evidence from the food industry

Aw, Bee-yan; Lee, Yi; Vandenbussche, Hylke - 2023

This paper develops an empirical model of consumer taste in twenty-nine Belgium food industries for the period from 1998-2005 to generate a "taste distance" measure of over 1,800 ﬁrm-product exports to 53 country destinations. We estimate consumer taste using a control function approach and...

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Self-preferencing, quality provision, and welfare in mobile application markets

Teng, Xuan - 2022

Platforms may give preferential treatment to their own products in search results. Whether and how to regulate this self-preferencing behavior is an intensely debated antitrust issue. This paper identifies self-preferencing and quantifies its equilibrium welfare effects in Apple App Store. I...

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