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This paper analyzes seller choices and outcomes in approximately 700 Internet auctions of a relatively homogeneous good. The ‘Buy it Now’ option allows the seller to convert the auction into a posted price market. We use a structural model to control for the conduct of the auction as well as...
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Does the Internet provide a failsafe against media consolidation in the wake of an easing of media ownership rules? This paper posits a model of news outlet selection on the Internet in which consumers experience cognitive costs that increase with the number of options faced. Consistent with...
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Software market is considered as a new object for the mathematical economics. A statistical study of the server operating systems market is provided, static and dynamic models of for-profit and non-for-profit software developers mixed duopoly are built (taking into account market growth,...
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We present an information good pricing model with persistently heterogeneous consumers and a rising marginal propensity for them to pirate. Three offsetting pricing mechanisms occur: skimming, compressing price changes, and delaying product launch. We identify a novel trade off in piracy's...
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This is a discussion of the manuscript "Local News Online: Aggregators, Geo-Targeting and the Market for Local News" by L. George and C. Hogendorn, presented at the 11th Workshop on Media Economics, which was held at the Recanati Business School, Tel-Aviv University, October 9-10, 2013.
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We examine seller strategies in 1177 Internet auctions on eBay, to understand the diversity of strategies used, and their impacts. Dimensions of strategic choice include the use of a ‘Buy it Now’ option, the level of the starting price, and the use of a secret reserve price. A major focus of...
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similar services in all branches of country’s banks. Therefore, the customers refer to the banks inevitably to satisfy their … reforming and improving the quality of services in the banking system. …
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Europe’s market for services is fragmented by many regulatory barriers. The Services directive proposed by the European … Commission aims to integrate national services markets by reducing these barriers. Several studies indicate that bilateral trade … and foreign direct investment in services could boost substantially. GDP and consumption could increase by 0.5% to about 1 …
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This paper discusses the economic category of "competitive advantages" in relation to business structures in market conditions. Analyzes a number of features that characterize the steady state of the economic entity in the process of competitive relations: relativity, dynamics, var-iability,...
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There are multiple factors which are affecting the performance of employees in which interpersonal conflict becomes a root cause of barriers in flow of organizational operations. Workplace conflict based on the people’s ideas, what they are considering important for the organization. This...
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