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Exchange competition, entry, and welfare
Cespa, Giovanni; Vives, Xavier - 2018
competition model with entry in which exchanges supply technological services, and have market power. We find that technological … services can be strategic substitutes or complements in platform competition. Free entry of platforms delivers a superior …
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A unified theory of firm selection and growth
Arkolakis, Costas - 2009
This paper develops a theory of firm selection and growth and embeds it into an international trade framework of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003850872
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Integration vs. outsourcing in industry equilibrium
Grossman, Gene M.; Helpman, Elhanan - 2001
how the degree of competition in the industry, the nature of the search technology, the division of bargaining strength …
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The division of labor and the market for organizations
Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - 2000
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Managerial job assignment and imperfect competition in asymmetric equilibrium
Grossmann, Volker - 2003
This paper develops a model with multiple market locations in which the quality of intangible assets of firms, provided by management, determines the firms. performance. Despite an ex ante symmetry of potential entrants, the equilibrium assignment of heterogeneous managerial skills to firms...
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Gatekeeping in health care
Brekke, Kurt R. (contributor); Nuscheler, Robert (contributor) - 2005
about the secondary care market. We show that hospital competition is amplified by higher GP attendance but dampened by … improved diagnosing accuracy. Therefore, compulsory gatekeeping may result in excessive quality competition and too much …
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Competition and innovation in automobile markets
Ghosal, Vivek; Ni, Jiayao - 2015
Using data from the US automobile market, we empirically examine the link between competition and innovation … interesting market to examine the link between competition and innovation. We use firm-level time-series data over a long horizon … relationship is reasonably non-linear; (2) higher market-wide competition results in an increase in patenting, and the relationship …
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Team production in competitive labor markets with adverse selection
Siemens, Ferdinand von; Kosfeld, Michael - 2014
Team production is a frequent feature of modern organizations. Combined with team incentives, team production can create externalities among workers, since their utility upon accepting a contract depends on their team's performance and therefore on their colleagues' productivity. We study the...
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Where to look for the morals in markets?
Sutter, Matthias; Huber, Jürgen; Kirchler, Michael; … - 2016
Markets are ubiquitous in our daily life and, despite many imperfections, they are a great source of human welfare. Nevertheless, there is a heated recent debate on whether markets erode social responsibility and moral behavior. In fact, competitive pressure on markets may create strong...
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Salience, competition, and decoy goods
Herweg, Fabian; Müller, Daniel; Weinschenk, Philipp - 2016
competition by a competitive fringe that produces low quality. We show that the brand manufacturer optimally provides a decoy good …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011557863