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Dynamic optimization and learning : how should a manager set prices when the demand function is unknown?
Carvalho, Alexandre Ywata de; Puterman, Martin L. - 2015
This paper considers the problem of changing prices over time to maximize expected revenues in the presence of unknown demand distribution parameters. It provides and compares several methods that use the sequence of past prices and observed demands to set price in the current period. A Taylor...
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Service offshoring and export experience
Berlingieri, Giuseppe; Marcolin, Luca; Ornelas, Emanuel - 2021
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The spillover effect of services offshoring on local labour markets
Magli, Martina - 2022
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The spillover effect of services offshoring on local labour markets
Magli, Martina - 2022
I provide new empirical evidence on the direct and indirect impact of services offshoring on local employment and wages …, using a unique dataset on firms in the UK for the period 2000-2015. Exploiting variation in firms' services offshoring … across labour markets, I show positive aggregate local labour employment and wage elasticity to services offshoring …
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Innovation and information technology in services
Licht, Georg - 1997
sector. Using data from a survey of innovative activities in services we show that investment in information technology (IT …) has a stronger effect on the quality of services than on the productivity of the IT-using firm. IT investment seems to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428107
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Consumer salience and quality provision in (un)regulated public service markets
Gu, Yiquan; Rasch, Alexander; Wenzel, Tobias - 2020
This paper examines the publication of quality indicators in service markets with public finance systems, such as education and healthcare markets. We provide a spatial model of product differentiation in which the reporting of such indicators increases consumers’ decision weight on quality...
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Unemployment and hours of work : the North Atlantic divide revisited
Pissaridēs, Christophoros A. (contributor) - 2006
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Quantification of qualitative data using ordered probit models with an application to a business survey in the German service sector
Kaiser, Ulrich; Spitz-Oener, Alexandra - 2000
This paper aims at providing business survey analysts with simple econometric tools to quantify qualitative survey data. We extend the traditional and commonly applied method proposed by Carlson and Parkin (1975) to capture observable survey respondent heterogeneity. We also discuss...
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Why so sluggish? : analyzing the determinants of price adjustments in the service sector using survey microdata
Polydoro, Angelo; Ardeo, Vagner Laerte - 2018
by using a novel dataset from the Services Survey of the Brazilian Institute of Economics from the Getulio Vargas …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012061481
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Research cooperation and research expenditures with endogenous absorptive capacity : theory and microeconometric evidence for the German service sector
Kaiser, Ulrich - 2000
This paper derives a three stage Cournot duopoly game for research collaboration, research expenditures and product market competition. The amount of knowledge firms can absorb from other firms is made dependent on their own research efforts, e.g., firms' absorptive capacity is treated as an...
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