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Digital Rights Management and the Pricing of Digital Products
Park, Yooki - 2008
As it becomes cheaper to copy and share digital content, vendors are turning to technical protections such as encryption. We argue that if protection is nevertheless imperfect, this transition will generally lower the prices of content relative to perfect legal enforcement. However, the effect...
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Mergers and Marginal Costs : New Evidence on Hospital Buyer Power
Craig, Stuart - 2018
We estimate the effects of horizontal mergers on marginal cost efficiencies – an ubiquitous merger justification – using data containing supply purchase orders from a large sample of US hospitals 2009-2015. The data provide a level of detail that has been difficult to observe previously, and...
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Income and Wealth Effects on Private-Label Demand : Evidence from the Great Recession
Dubé, Jean-Pierre - 2015
We measure the causal effects of income and wealth on the demand for private-label products. Prior research suggests that these effects are large and, in particular, that private-label demand rises during recessions. Our empirical analysis is based on a comprehensive household-level transactions...
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The Strategic Positioning of Store Brands in Retailer - Manufacturer Bargaining
Scott Morton, Fiona M.; Zettelmeyer, Florian - 2021
We argue in this paper that retailers can strategically position store brands in product space to strengthen their bargaining position when negotiating supply terms with manufacturers of national brands. Using a bargaining framework we model a retailer's decision whether to carry an additional...
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What Can the Price Gap between Branded and Private Label Products Tell Us About Markups?
Barsky, Robert; Bergen, Mark E.; Dutta, Shantanu; Levy, … - 2022
In this paper we investigate the size of markups for nationally branded products sold in the U.S. retail grocery industry. Using scanner data from a large Midwestern supermarket chain, we compute several measures of upper and lower bounds on markup ratios for over 230 nationally branded products...
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Dynamic Supplier Contracts under Asymmetric Inventory Information
Zhang, Hao; Nagarajan, Mahesh; Sosic, Greys - 2010
In this paper, we examine a supply chain in which a single supplier sells to a downstream newsvendor-type retailer. We make two assumptions that enrich this simple and well-understood model. First, we consider a multi-period model, in which the sequence of events is as follows. In a period, t,...
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Innovation and Foreign Ownership
Guadalupe, Maria - 2010
product and process innovation (simultaneously adopting new machines and organizational practices) and adopt foreign … technologies, leading to higher productivity. We propose a model of endogenous selection and innovation in heterogeneous firms that … jointly explains the observed selection process and the innovation decisions. Further, we show in the data that innovation on …
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Innovation and Welfare : Results from Joint Estimation of Production and Demand Functions
Jaumandreu, Jordi - 2010
that the total current period (static) welfare gains of introducing a process or a product innovation are, on average …
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On the Timing and Efficiency of Creative Destruction
Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2010
process innovation. There are strong reasons why an efficient economy ought to concentrate both job creation and destruction …
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Long-Term Barriers to the International Diffusion of Innovations
Spolaore, Enrico - 2012
We document an empirical relationship between the cross-country adoption of technologies and the degree of long-term historical relatedness between human populations. Historical relatedness is measured using genetic distance, a measure of the time since two populations' last common ancestors. We...
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