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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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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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A banana republic? : trust in electoral institutions in Western democracies : evidence from a presidential election in Austria

Potrafke, Niklas; Rösel, Felix - 2016

We examine the extent to which political scandals influence trust in electoral institutions in established Western democracies. The second ballot of the 2016 Presidential election in Austria needed to be repeated because of inconsistencies in individual electoral districts (scandal districts)....

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Trade and industrial policy of transition economies

Gonzales, José Luis Moraga; Viaene, Jean-Marie - 2001

Trade reforms in transition economies are analyzed in a model of trade and vertical product differentiation. We first show that trade liberalization in transition economies reduces the local firm s output and raises the prices of all variants. Second, we find that neither free trade nor the...

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Income inequality and export prices across countries

Flach, Lisandra; Janeba, Eckhard - 2013

This paper provides first firm-level evidence of the links between income inequality and the patterns of trade and export prices. We identify a theoretical mechanism behind these links, which suggests that a more unequal income distribution leads to higher average prices. We test the theory...

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Dynamic entry in vertically differentiated markets

Auer, Raphael A.; Sauré, Philip - 2016

We develop a model of vertical innovation in which firms incur a market entry cost and choose a unique level of quality. Once established, firms compete for market shares, selling to consumers with heterogeneous tastes for quality. The equilibrium of the pricing game exists and is unique within...

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Quality and gravity in international trade : presented at CESifo Area Conference on Global Economy, May 2016

Flach, Lisandra; Unger, Florian - 2016

This paper introduces quality innovations with endogenous sunk costs in a heterogeneous firm model of international trade and derives implications for the gravity equation. The model predicts that the effect of fixed costs on exports and on the share of exporters is lower in industries with a...

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Quality differentiation in durable goods monopoly always yields strictly positive profits

Laussel, Didier; Long, Ngo Van - 2021

A monopolist producing vertically differentiated durable goods can offer in each period a sequence of price-quality menus to segment the market. We show that, contrary to the Coase conjecture for the homogeneous durable good monopoly, thanks to the ability to produce differentiated durable...

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Asymmetric information and differentiated durable goods monopoly : intra-period versus intertemporal price discrimination

Laussel, Didier; Long, Ngo Van; Resende, Joana - 2021

A durable good monopolist faces a continuum of heterogeneous customers who make purchase decisions by comparing present and expected price-quality offers. The monopolist designs a sequence of price-quality menus to segment the market. We consider the Markov Perfect Equilibrium (MPE) of a game...

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Firm export survival : micro-evidence from the Philippines

Pelkmans-Balaoing, E.O. Annette; Heuvelen, Gerrit Hugo van - 2016

This paper explores firms' export dynamics in emerging economies where local firms face stiff foreign competition, both at home and abroad, and thus compelled to choose the level of quality in which to export. We develop and test a model of vertical product differentiation where the link between...

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