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Evidence of Decreasing Internet Entropy : The Lack of Redundancy in Dns Resolution by Major Websites and Services

Bates, Samantha - 2018

This paper analyzes the extent to which the Internet's global domain name resolution (DNS) system has preserved its …

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The Effects of Website Provision on the Demand for German Women's Magazines

Kaiser, Ulrich - 2022

The effect of website provision on the demand for German women's magazines is analyzed using differentiated product … demand models estimated on panel data that cover the period 1990 2000. Descriptive evidence on the magazines' website … contents suggests that websites are used to provide supplementary information and to advertise the current print issue. Website …

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Empirical Models of Consumer Behavior

Nevo, Aviv - 2010

Models of consumer behavior play a key role in modern empirical Industrial Organization. In this paper, I survey some of the models used in this literature. In particular, I discuss two commonly used demand systems: multi-stage budgeting approaches and discrete choice models. I motivate their...

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Broker Incentives and Mutual Fund Market Segmentation

Del Guercio, Diane - 2010

We study the impact of investor heterogeneity on mutual fund market segmentation. To motivate our empirical analysis, we make two assumptions. First, some investors inherently value broker services. Second, because brokers are only compensated when they sell mutual funds, they have little...

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Technological Linkages, Market Structure, and Optimum Production Policies

Lovely, Mary E. - 2010

There has been an increased interest in the efficacy of industrial policy. We show that policy design for vertically-related industries hinges on the nature of market interactions as well as technological linkages. Using a model in which final-good producers realize productivity gains from...

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Environmental Policy When Market Structure and Plant Locations are Endo-Genous

Markusen, James R. - 2010

A two-region, two-firm model is developed in which firms choose the number and the regional locations of their plants. Both firms pollute and, in this context, market structure is endogenous to environmental policy. There are increasing returns at the plant level, imperfect competition between...

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Productivity, Output, and Failure : A Comparison of Taiwanese and Korean Manufacturers

Aw, Bee Yan - 2012

Industry cost and demand conditions can vary across countries leading to differences in industry market structure, including the distribution of output and productivity across firms and the magnitude of entry and exit flows. It has been argued that despite many outward similarities, two of the...

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Mortgage Market Design

Campbell, John Y. - 2012

This paper explores the causes and consequences of cross-country variation in mortgage market structure. It draws on insights from several fields: urban economics, asset pricing, behavioral finance, financial intermediation, and macroeconomics. It discusses lessons from the credit boom, the...

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How Much Do Idiosyncratic Bank Shocks Affect Investment? Evidence from Matched Bank-Firm Loan Data

Amiti, Mary - 2013

We show that supply-side financial shocks have a large impact on firms' investment. We develop a new methodology to separate firm-borrowing shocks from bank-supply shocks using a vast sample of matched bank-firm lending data. We decompose aggregate loan movements in Japan for the period 1990 to...

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Vertical Integration and Market Structure

Bresnahan, Timothy - 2014

Contractual theories of vertical integration derive firm boundaries as an efficient response to market transaction costs. These theories predict a relationship between underlying features of transactions and observed integration decisions. There has been some progress in testing these...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013066521

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