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Horizontal and Vertical Firm Networks, Corporate Performance and Product Market Competition
Bischoff, Oliver - 2015
market competition. In markets with effective competition, horizontal multiple directorships turn out to be an efficient … firms have no significant influence on financial performance, irrespective of the level of competition intensity …
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Wholesale Price Determination Under the Threat of Demand-Side Substitution
Inderst, Roman; Shaffer, Greg - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
An upstream supplier that is constrained both by downstream competition and the threat of demand-side substitution … relatively high marginal wholesale prices in order to dampen intra-brand competition, surplus extraction will be higher when the … supplier instead charges relatively low marginal wholesale prices. The reason is that by inducing more intra-brand competition …
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Actual and perceived inflation
D'Elia, Enrico - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
The concept of inflation perceived by consumers came in the recent debate on inflation since it may affect consumer behaviour even if the perception was completely wrong. A misperception of inflation occurs particularly when households tend to label incorrectly inflation what really is a...
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Nonlinear pricing with imperfectly informed consumers
Armstrong, Mark - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1996
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Consumer uncertainty and price discrimination through online coupons: an empirical study of restaurants in Shanghai
Zhang, Jie; Savage, Scott; Chen, Yongmin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
We use data from restaurants in Shanghai, China to conduct a new empirical analysis of prices and coupons. Our results show a positive relationship between prices and online coupons. Moreover, the price premium from couponing is higher for restaurants about which consumer values appear to be...
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Information Acquisition and Price Discrimination
Fatemi, Farshad - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
We consider a Hotelling model of price competition where firms may acquire costly information regarding the preferences …
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Bundling revisited: substitute products and inter-firm discounts
Armstrong, Mark - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
the innate substitutability of products, which can relax competition between firms and induce an integrated firm to lower …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008728071
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Dynamic Price Discrimination and Quality Provision Based on Purchase History
Sun, Ching-jen - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This paper develops a general two-period model of product line pricing with customer recognition. Specifically, we consider a monopolist who can sell vertically differentiated products over two periods to heterogeneous consumers. Each consumer demands one unit of the product in each period. In...
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Exploding offers and buy-now discounts
Armstrong, Mark; Zhou, Jidong - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
A common sales tactic is for a seller to encourage a potential customer to make her purchase decision quickly. We consider a market with sequential consumer search in which firms often encourage first-time visitors to buy immediately, either by making an "exploding offer" (which permits no...
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Confessions of an Internet Monopolist: Demand Estimation for a Versioned Information Good
Chappell, Henry; Guimaraes, Paulo; Ozturk, Orgul - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
We investigate profit-maximizing versioning plans for an information goods monopolist. The analysis employs data obtained from a web-based field experiment in which potential buyers were offered information goods in varied price-quality configurations. Maximum simulated likelihood (MSL) methods...
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