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Assortment decisions are key strategic instruments for firms responding to local market conditions. We assess this claim by studying the effect of a national merger between two large Dutch supermarket chains on prices and on the depth as well as composition of assortment. We adopt a...
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We study the effect of a merger between two Dutch supermarket chains to assess its effect on the depth as well as composition of assortment. We adopt a difference-in-differences strategy that exploits local variation in the merger's effects, controlling for selection on observables through a...
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interaction, as a side effect, erodes moral values. An encompassing understanding of the virtues and vices of markets, including … highly influential paper, Falk and Szech (2013) provide experimental data that seem to suggest that "market interaction … corroborate their conclusion. These treatments, however, reveal that repeated play and not market interaction causes the erosion …
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This paper uses a field experiment to answer how information frictions between parents and their children affect … parents was provided de-tailed information about their child's academic progress. I frame the results in the context of a … persuasion game between parents and their children. Parents have upwardly-biased beliefs about their child's effort and the …
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and the socioeconomic background of parents play a vital role in the early development of human cooperation. …
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influence of children's cognitive skills and parents' socioeconomic background on cooperation. …
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situations. We look at Germany and quantify the macroeconomic importance of working parents. We document that 26 percent of the …
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. Importantly, we find that socio-economic status of a family has no explanatory power as soon as we control for parents' economic …
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On 3 June 2020, the German government announced a temporary value added tax (VAT) rate reduction. VAT rates were reduced on 1 July 2020 and went back to their previous level on 1 January 2021. We study the price effects of the temporary VAT rate reduction using a web-scraped data set covering...
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