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hypermarkets raises competitive intensity and use hypermarket data, among other variables, in a pooled estimation. Results suggest … that hypermarket competition reduces long-run adoption of information technology (IT) in retailing. In particular, the …
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We analyze below-cost pricing in retail markets and examine its impact on social welfare as well as on suppliers' incentives to invest in quality. Considering negotiations about a linear wholesale price between the retailer and her suppliers, we find that below-cost pricing aggravates the double...
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We measure the revenue and cost implications to supermarkets of changing their price positioning strategy in oligopolistic downstream retail markets. Our estimates have implications for long-run market structure in the supermarket industry, and for measuring the sources of price rigidity in the...
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We model the contest among full-service advertising agencies as a score auction. The score auction allows the advertiser to select the agency that offers the best combination of creative quality and media cost, and to determine the contract price. To participate in the contest, each agency needs...
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Using a research design that traces siblings' preferences for postmaterialistic values in Germany over two decades, this paper provides new evidence on the origins of value preferences. Focusing on Inglehart's thesis of value change, we test the combined socialization and scarcity hypothesis...
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Recent years have witnessed a rise in right-wing extremism among German youth and young adults. This paper investigates …
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Can cash transfers promote employment and reduce poverty in rural Africa? Will lower youth unemployment and poverty … monitoring and accountability, most youth invest the transfer in vocational skills and tools. Second, the economic impacts of the … poor access to credit is a major reason youth cannot start these vocations in the absence of aid. Much of the heterogeneity …
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