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This paper explores the impact of product liability on vertical product differentiation when product safety is perfectly observable. In a two-stage competition, duopolistic firms are subject to strict liability and segment the market such that a low-safety product is marketed at a low price to...
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This paper develops a quality-ladder model of endogenous growth to study the interplay between in-house R&D and marketing expenditure. Although promotional activity is modelled as purely wasteful competition among firms for attention, it unambiguously fosters innovation activity of firms, and...
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nondiscrimination regulation that forces the ISP to provide an equal quality upgrade to both CPs, however, can reduce the ISP …
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, we contrast producer liability and minimum quality standard regulation as alternative means of social control of product … relative desirability of strict liability vis-à-vis minimum quality standard regulation from a social welfare standpoint. We … also clarify when and why joint use of strict liability and minimum quality standard regulation welfare dominates the …
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This paper investigates the positive international spillover effects of non-discriminatory product regulations, such as quality standards. We incorporate regulations into a multi-country general equilibrium framework with firm heterogeneity and variable markups. We model regulations as a...
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We study consumer response towards sponsored search advertising and how to improve advertising performance on a large e … suggest that consumers dislike search advertising in our setting, but quality certificates mitigate this aversion and increase … advertising sales. …
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link between gasoline content regulation and the compliance behavior of refineries. We find that in areas with more … stringent gasoline regulation, there was increased compliance on the part of firms. -- Clean Air Act ; compliance behavior … ; energy markets ; product regulation ; petroleum refining ; environmental pollution …
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on the rest of the world as it induces entry of high-quality firms, but unilateral regulation lowers the terms of trade of … to quantify the welfare consequences of imposing the optimal regulation, the extent of the positive externalities across …
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We use a novel dataset of online advertiser performance and product sales to quantify the medium-term economic effects of Apple's App Tracking Transparency Policy (ATT). We find that ATT significantly degraded the ability by Facebook advertisers to target advertisements based on its off-platform...
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