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neither. We show that two types of signalling equilibria are possible. Both are characterised by dispersion and Pareto …
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misconceptions are widespread, but that they do not cause higher valuation of codeshare products. Consistent with signaling, however …
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Firms signal high quality through high prices even if the market structure is highly competitive and price competition is severe. In a symmetric Bertrand oligopoly where products may differ only in their quality, production cost is increasing in quality and the quality of each firm’s product...
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promotion, in a model where a seller employs informative advertising to launch a new product. We propose a fairly general … advertising technology for the study of three promotional strategies—mass, imperfectly targeted, and customer directed advertising … (CDA). We find that both the private and the social incentives to use distinct advertising strategies are aligned, and that …
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One of the reasons why regulators are hesitant about permitting price competition in healthcare markets is that it may damage quality when information is poor. Evidence on whether this fear is well-founded is scarce. We provide evidence using a reform that permitted Dutch health insurers and...
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We present a strategic game of pricing and targeted-advertising. Firms cansimultaneously target priceadvertisements to … occur surely. Equilibria exhibit random advertising--to induce an unequal distribution of information in the market …
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We investigate the impacts of five airline mergers on one quality dimension, namely route frequency. We use monthly data on routes between the largest 64 US cities from 1999 to 2016. On average, the mergers decrease the frequency, but there are large differences between the five mergers. We...
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