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Beef Up Your Competitor : A Model of Advertising Cooperation Between Internet Search Engines

Sapi, Geza; Suleymanova, Irina - 2009

We propose a duopoly model of competition between internet search engines endowed with different technologies and study … superior firm enters the agreement only if it results in a large enough increase in demand for advertising space at the … share the agreement is beneficial for the inferior firm as the later firm's additional revenues from a higher advertising …

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Estimating Demand with Multi-Homing in Two-Sided Markets

Affeldt, Pauline Luise; Argentesi, Elena; Filistrucchi, Lapo - 2021

, accounting for multi-homing helps to recognize complementarity between products; on the advertising side, it allows to measure to … what extent advertising demand depends on the shares of exclusive and overlapping readers …

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Partitioned Pricing and Consumer Welfare

Tran, Kevin Ducbao - 2020

In online commerce, obfuscation strategies by sellers are hypothesized to mislead consumers to their detriment and to the profit of sellers. One such obfuscation strategy is partitioned pricing in which the price is split into a base price and add-on fees. While empirical evidence suggests that...

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Learning from Unrealized Versus Realized Prices

Ngangoue, Kathleen - 2015

that is roughly consistent with the benchmark theory …

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Quality Distortions in Vertical Relations

Baake, Pio - 2010

This paper examines how delivery tariffs and private quality standards are determined in vertical relations that are subject to asymmetric information. We consider an infinitely repeated game where an upstream firm sells a product to a downstream firm. In each period, the firms negotiate a...

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Price Guarantees, Consumer Search, and Hassle Costs

Baake, Pio - 2013

The paper deals with the competitive effects of price guarantees in a spatial duopoly where consumers can search for lower prices but have to incur hassle costs if they want to claim a price guarantee. It is shown that symmetric equilibria with and without price guarantees exist but price...

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A Market Screening Model for Price Inconstancies : Empirical Evidence from German Electricity Markets

von Blanckenburg, Korbinian - 2013

In this paper, we develop a market screening model to detect inconstancies in price changes. Although there is a long history of industrial organization research of collusion, price setting behavior, and conduct - a robust model to detect structural changes in market structure was missing so...

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Upfront Payments and Listing Decisions

Baake, Pio; Schlippenbach, Vanessa von - 2008

We analyze the listing decisions of a retailer who may ask her suppliers to make upfront payments in order to be listed. We consider a sequential game with upfront payments being negotiated before short-term delivery contracts. We show that the retailer is more likely to use upfront payments the...

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The Effect of Partial Retirement on Labor Supply, Public Balances and the Income Distribution : Evidence from a Structural Analysis

Tolan, Songül - 2017

This paper develops a structural dynamic retirement model to investigate effects and corresponding underlying mechanisms of a partial retirement program on labor supply, fiscal balances, and the pension income distribution. The structural approach allows for disentangling the two counteracting...

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The Role of Time Preferences in Educational Decision Making

Kemptner, Daniel - 2016

We analyze the implication of time-inconsistent preferences in educational decision making and corresponding policies using a structural dynamic choice model. Based on a novel identification approach, we exploit variation in average years invested in degree attainment through various educational...

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