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In a dynamic environment where underlying competition is "for the market," this paper examines what happens when … entrants and incumbents can instead negotiate for the market. For instance, this might arise when an entrant innovator can …
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introduce a model of the market for advertising on news media outlets whereby news outlets are modeled as competing two … equilibrium outcomes in the advertising market. One consequence is that multi-homing on the part of advertisers is heterogeneous …
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which the introduction of religious competition shifts political markets where religious authorities provide legitimacy to … rulers in exchange for control over resources. Consistent with our framework, religious competition changed the balance of …
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cooperation. We show that a judicious allocation of asset ownership can help by reducing the incentives to engage in hold up. In …
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over assets and who bears the costs and benefits of those decisions. They assign ownership, wealth, political influence …
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Private ownership should generally be preferred to public ownership when the incentives to innovate and to contain … the role of prices under socialism and capitalism and ignored the enormous importance of ownership as the source of … addressed through government contacting and regulation without resort to government ownership. The case for private provision …
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We show that armed actors refrain from using their power to arbitrarily steal from an economy if, and only if, the armed actors' property rights over stealing from that economy are secure. By 2009, armed actors taxed, administered, and protected various villages in Democratic Republic of the...
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To investigate how fuel economy is valued in the Indian car market, we compute the cost to Indian consumers of … hedonic price functions for four market segments (petrol hatchbacks, diesel hatchbacks, petrol sedans, and diesel sedans) to … associated present value of fuel savings falls within the 95 percent confidence interval for some specifications, in all market …
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Safe assets are demanded to smooth consumption across states (both intertemporally and in cross-section). Some of these assets are supplied publicly (government bonds) and some are created and supplied privately (such as mortgagebacked securities and asset-backed securities). Private assets are...
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In the automobile industry, as in many tradable goods markets, firms usually earn their highest market share within … their domestic market. The goal of this paper is to disentangle the supply- and demand-driven sources of the home market … advantage. While trade costs, foreign production costs, and taste heterogeneity all matter for market outcomes, we find that a …
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