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Quality differentiation and optimal pricing strategy in multi-sided markets
Kim, Soo Jin; Pal, Pallavi - 2021
This paper analyzes the generalized quality differentiation model in multi-sided markets with positive externalities, which leads to new insights into the optimal pricing structure of the firm. We find that quality differentiation for users on one side affects not only the side involving...
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Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility
Planer-Friedrich, Lisa; Sahm, Marco - 2017 - This version: May 29, 2017
We examine the strategic use of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in imperfectly competitive markets. The level of CSR determines the weight a firm puts on consumer surplus in its objective function before it decides upon supply. First, we consider symmetric Cournot competition and show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011659485
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A commitment theory of populism
Morelli, Massimo; Nicolò, Antonio; Roberti, Paolo - 2021
with populism in the literature. Hence, this paper puts forward a commitment theory of populism. …
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Subprime crisis and board (in-)competence : private vs. public banks in Germany
Hau, Harald; Thum, Marcel - 2009
supervisory board (in-)competence in finance is related to losses in the financial crisis. Improved bank governance is therefore a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003850179
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Lame ducks and divided government : how voters control the unaccountable
Schelker, Mark - 2011
The ability of voters to use the available electoral instruments is crucial for the functioning of democracies. The paper shows that voters consider the institutional environment when making electoral decisions. Voters recognize that executives who face binding term limits (i.e., "lame ducks")...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009240023
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Political leader survival : does competence matter?
Yu, Shu; Jong-A-Pin, Richard - 2013
We examine whether economic and military competence of political leaders affect their duration in office. We introduce … leader heterogeneity in the selectorate theory of Bueno de Mesquita et al. (2003) and derive the hypothesis that in the … presence of a revolutionary threat, economic competence is negatively related to political survival, but that the effect is …
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The next wave of energy innovation : which technologies? Which skills?
Popp, David; Vona, Francesco; Grégoire-Zawilski, Myriam; … - 2022
The costs of low-carbon energy fell dramatically over the past decade, leading to rapid growth in its deployment. However, many challenges remain to deploy low-carbon energy at a scale necessary to meet net zero carbon emission targets. We argue that developing complementary technologies and...
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Business strategy and firm reorganization under changing market conditions
Ghosal, Vivek - 2009
This study is framed against the increasingly stringent environmental demands on the pulp and paper industry since the late-1980s to reduce water and air pollution, and the global economic slowdown of the early-1990s. The primary focus of this paper is an observation-based analysis conducted by...
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Pharmaceutical patents : incentives for R&D or marketing?
Brekke, Kurt R. (contributor); Straume, Odd Rune (contributor) - 2008
We analyse how a patent-holding pharmaceutical firm may strategically use advertising of existing drugs to affect R&D investments in new (differentiated) drugs, and thereby affect the probability distribution of future market structures in the industry. Within a fairly general model framework,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003771873
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Strategic approaches to CO2 emissions : the case of the cement industry and of the chemical industry
Arjaliès, Diane Laure; Goubet, Cécile; Ponssard, … - 2014
The ability of companies to turn an environmental constraint into a source of strategic opportunities is a controversial topic in published research. The article, which is based on a comparative study of the CO2 emission reduction strategies implemented by the cement and chemical industries,...
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