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All-pay competition with captive consumers
Foucart, Renaud; Friedrichsen, Jana - 2021
consumer surplus. We relate our findings to competition cases in digital markets. …
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Search and equilibrium prices : theory and evidence from retail diesel
Cabral, Luís M. B.; Schober, Dominik; Woll, Oliver - 2019 - This version: March 27, 2019
We examine the relation between consumer search and equilibrium prices when collusion is endogenously determined. We develop a theoretical model and show that average price is a U-shaped function of the measure of searchers: prices are highest when there are no searchers (local monopoly power)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012007152
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Trade and competition : mark-ups, concentration, and international orientation : discussion and empirical test for Brazilian manufacturing sectors
Oliveira, Glauco Avelino Sampaio - 2022
This paper discusses the relation between trade and competition, revising the literature and using indicators, build … domestic competition is explained by concentration indices, such as CR4 and HHI, which show positive correlation with profit … evaluating trade and competition policies in the context of the Brazilian economy. …
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How do sellers benefit from buy-it-now prices in Ebay auctions? : an experimental investigation
Grebe, Tim; Ivanova-Stenzel, Radosveta; Kröger, Sabine - 2018
In Buy-It-Now (BIN, hereafter) auctions, sellers can make a "take-it-or-leave-it" price offer (BIN price) prior to an auction. We analyse experimentally how eBay sellers set BIN prices and whether they benefit from offering them. Using the real eBay environment in the laboratory, we find that...
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Returns to scale : new evidence from administrative firm-level data
McAdam, Peter; Meinen, Philipp; Papageorgiou, Chris; … - 2024
relatively stable, there is evidence of some tendency for them to increase over time. When we allow for imperfect competition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014583331
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Not as good as it used to be : do streaming platforms penalize quality?
Gambato, Jacopo; Sandrini, Luca - 2024 - This version: 19.06.2024
In this study, we analyze the incentives of a streaming platform to bias consumption when products are vertically differentiated. The platform offers mixed bundles of content to monetize consumer interest in variety and pays royalties to sellers based on the effective consumption of the...
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Not as good as it used to be : do streaming platforms penalize quality?
Gambato, Jacopo; Sandrini, Luca - 2023
We study the incentives of a streaming platform to bias consumption when products are vertically differentiated. The platform offers mixed bundles of content to monetize consumers' interest in variety and pays royalties to sellers based on the effective consumption of the content they produce....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014331542
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Risk, reward and uncertainty in buyer-seller transactions : the seller's view on combining posted prices and auctions
Ivanova-Stenzel, Radosveta; Kröger, Sabine - 2023
In Buy-It-Now auctions, sellers can post a take-it-or-leave-it price offer prior to an auction. While the literature almost exclusively looks at buyers in such combined mechanisms, the current paper summarizes results from the sellers' point of view. Buy-It-Now auctions are complex mechanisms...
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Intangibles and industry concentration: supersize me
Bajgar, Matej; Criscuolo, Chiara; Timmis, Jonathan - 2021
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Targeted bidders in government tenders
Cappelletti, Matilde; Giuffrida, Leonardo M. - 2022
on actual competition and contract outcomes are ambiguous. We pool a decade of US federal procurement data to shed light …
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