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Tax pass-through in the European beer market
Ardalan, Aria; Kessing, Sebastian - 2019
We study the pass-through of indirect taxes on beer prices in the European Union (EU). Exploiting the variation of … value added tax rates, beer excise tax rates, and beer prices in a panel of monthly data from 1996 to 2016 of all current 28 … EU member states, we estimate the tax pass-through of specific beer excise taxes and ad valorem value added taxes (VAT …
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The end of tourist traps : a natural experiment on the impact of tripadvisor on quality upgrading
Donati, Dante - 2022
Asymmetric information can distort market outcomes. I study how the online disclosure of information affects consumers' behavior and firms' incentives to upgrade product quality in markets where information is traditionally limited. I first build a model of consumer search with firms' endogenous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013285520
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Term length and the quality of appointments
Glazer, Amihai; Kanniainen, Vesa - 2000
Consider a principal who appoints an agent. Let the agent potentially serve for a sufficiently long time that one principal is replaced by another over this period. Suppose also that the quality of the agent appointed increases with the effort the incumbent principal devotes to hiring. Then the...
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Inside the white box : unpacking the determinants of quality and vertical specialization
Jaimovich, Esteban; Madzharova, Boryana; Merella, Vincenzo - 2021
This paper explores patterns of quality differentiation and specialization relying on model-level panel data of retail sales and prices of refrigerators across 23 countries in the European Union. Unlike customs data aggregated at the product category, typically used in the literature,...
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Quality distortions in monopolistic competition
Kichko, Sergei; Ozhegova, Alina; Tarasov, Alexander - 2024
In this paper, we explore how heterogeneous firms decide on vertical and horizontal qualities of their products. We show that if increasing the product qualities appears to be relatively costly, more productive firms choose higher vertical quality but lower horizontal quality. We also document...
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Quality certificates alleviate consumer aversion to sponsored search advertising
Hui, Xiang; Liu, Meng - 2022
We study consumer response towards sponsored search advertising and how to improve advertising performance on a large e-commerce platform. Our research design is based on a field experiment which randomizes the salience of ad disclosure to consumers, and a natural experiment which eradicates a...
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Switching beers? : the effects of switching costs on prices and profits in competitive markets
He, Xiaoyang; Siebert, Ralph - 2021
We consider a dynamic oligopoly on the beer market and study the differential effects of switching costs on product … costs across customer income segments and beer brands. Our supply estimation results show that the low-quality firm …
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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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Vertical product differentiation when quality is unobservable to buyers : presented at CESifo Area Conference on Industrial Organisation, March 2003
Orosel, Gerhard O.; Zauner, Klaus G. - 2004
We analyze vertical product differentiation in a model where a good's quality is unobservable to buyers before purchase, a continuum of quality levels is technologically feasible, and minimum quality is supplied under competitive conditions. After purchase the true quality of the good is...
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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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