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Pharmaceutical patents : incentives for R&D or marketing?

Brekke, Kurt R. (contributor); Straume, Odd Rune (contributor) - 2008

a larger share of the patent rent is spent on marketing, relative to R&D. -- Marketing ; Research & Development …

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Contest for attention in a quality-ladder model of endogenous growth

Grossmann, Volker - 2003

marketing expenditure. Although promotional activity is modelled as purely wasteful competition among firms for attention, it … are consistent with empirical evidence. First, if firms incur higher sunk costs for marketing, concentration and firm … become excessive, whereas being inefficiently low in the benchmark case without marketing. This has non-trivial consequences …

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Firms and collective reputation : the Volkswagen emissions scandal as a case study

Bachmann, Ruediger; Ehrlich, Gabriel; Ruzic, Dimitrije - 2017

This paper uses the 2015 Volkswagen emissions scandal as a natural experiment to provide causal evidence that group reputation externalities matter for firms. Our estimates show statistically and economically significant declines in the U.S. sales and stock returns of, as well as public...

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The limits of trust in economic transactions : investigations of perfect reputation systems

Bolton, Gary E. (contributor); Ockenfels, Axel (contributor) - 2008

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How social reputation networks interact with competition in anonymous online trading : an experimental study

Bolton, Gary E. (contributor); … - 2008

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On the evolution of market institutions : the platform design paradox

Alós-Ferrer, Carlos (contributor); … - 2007

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Net neutrality and internet fragmentation : the role of online advertising

D'Annunzio, Anna; Russo, Antonio - 2015 - This version: July 2015

We investigate the relation between Net Neutrality regulation and Internet fragmentation. We model a two-sided market, where Content Providers (CPs) and consumers interact through Internet Service Providers (ISPs), and CPs sell consumers' attention to advertisers. Under Net Neutrality, a...

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Turning the page on business formats for digital platforms : does Apple's agency model soften competition?

Foros, Oystein; Kind, Hans Jarle; Shaffer, Greg Eric - 2013

The agency model used by Apple and other platform providers such as Google allows upstream firms (content providers like book publishers and developers of apps) to choose the retail prices of their products (RPM) subject to a fixed revenue-sharing rule. We show that (i) this leads to higher...

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An empirical study of pricing strategies in an online market with high-frequency price information

Ellison, Sara; Snyder, Christopher M. - 2014

We study competition among a score of firms participating in an online market for a commodity computer component. Firms were able to adjust prices continuously; prices determined how the firms were ranked and listed (lowest price listed first), with better ranks contributing to firms' sales....

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An experimental analysis of ending rules in Internet auctions

Ariely, Dan; Ockenfels, Axel; Roth, Alvin E. - 2003

A great deal of late bidding has been observed on internet auctions such as eBay, which employ a second price auction with a fixed deadline. Much less late bidding has been observed on internet auctions such as those run by Amazon, which employ similar auction rules, but use an ending rule that...

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