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Innovation networks in the industrial revolution

Rosenberger, Lukas; Hanlon, W. Walker; Hallmann, Carl - 2024

How did Britain sustain faster rates of economic growth than comparable European countries, such as France, during the … innovation network using patent data from Britain and France in the late-18th and early-19th century. We show that the network … quantify the implications for technology growth rates in Britain compared to France. Our results indicate that the shape of the …

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Payment evasion

Bühler, Stefan; Halbheer, Daniel; Lechner, Michael - 2015

This paper models payment evasion as a source of profit by letting the firm choose the purchase price and the fine imposed on detected payment evaders. For a given price and fine, the consumers purchase, evade payment, or choose the outside option. We show that payment evasion leads to a form of...

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Pay what you want as a marketing strategy in monopolistic and competitive markets

Schmidt, Klaus; Spann, Martin; Zeithammer, Robert - 2014

Pay What You Want (PWYW) can be an attractive marketing strategy to price discriminate between fair-minded and selfish customers, to fully penetrate a market without giving away the product for free, and to undercut competitors that use posted prices. We report on laboratory experiments that...

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Magazine subscription and intertemporal discounting : some further evidence

Resende, Marcelo; Ferioli, Eduardo - 2014

The paper's objective is to assess price discrimination in magazine subscriptions in the Brazilian market. Oster and Scott-Morton (2005) had advanced a price discrimination mechanism in which the ratio between subscription and newsstand prices would be positively associated to the extent that a...

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A structural econometric model of price discrimination in the mortgage lending industry

Gary-Bobo, Robert; Larribeau, Sophie - 2002

We propose a model of discrimination in the market for mortgages. The model explains accepted loan applications and determines loan sizes and interest rates simultaneously. A competitive, and a discriminating monopoly version of the model are proposed. Offered interest rates and loan sizes are a...

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The limits of marketplace fee discrimination

Tremblay, Mark J. - 2021

Platforms often use fee discrimination within their marketplace (e.g., Amazon, eBay, and Uber specify a variety of merchant fees). To better understand the impact of marketplace fee discrimination, we develop a model that allows us to determine equilibrium fee and category decisions that depend...

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Network externalities, dominant value margins, and equilibrium uniqueness

Choi, Jay Pil; Stefanadis, Christodoulos - 2022

We examine tippy network markets that accommodate price discrimination. The analysis shows that when a mild equilibrium refinement, the monotonicity criterion, is adopted, network competition may have a unique subgame-perfect equilibrium regarding the winner's identity; the prevailing brand may...

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Competition in the presence of individual demand uncertainty

Möller, Marc; Watanabe, Makoto - 2013

This paper sheds light on an empirical controversy about the effect of competition on price discrimination. We introduce individual demand uncertainty into Hotellingś model of product differentiation and show that firms offer advance purchase discounts. Consumers choose between an early...

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Behavioral constraints on pricing : experimental evidence on price discrimination and customer antagonism

Leibbrandt, Andreas - 2016

In this study, we investigate behavioral constraints on pricing by using a novel laboratory experiment in which actual consumption goods are traded. We test different models and provide several insights into pricing and reactions to price discrimination. First, we identify the extent to which...

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Multi-part tariffs and differentiated commodity taxation

D'Annunzio, Anna; Mardan, Mohammed; Russo, Antonio - 2019

We study commodity taxation in markets where firms, such as Internet Service Providers, energy suppliers and payment card platforms, adopt multi-part tariffs. We show that ad valorem taxes can correct underprovision and hence increase welfare, provided the government applies differentiated tax...

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