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The Intergenerational Transmission of Automobile Brand Preferences : Empirical Evidence and Implications for Firm Strategy
Anderson, Soren - 2013
We document a strong correlation in the brand of automobile chosen by parents and their adult children, using data from … the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. This correlation could represent transmission of brand preferences across generations …, or it could result from correlation in family characteristics that determine brand choice. We present a variety of …
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Do Pharmacists Buy Bayer? Informed Shoppers and the Brand Premium
Bronnenberg, Bart J. - 2014
suggest that misinformation and related consumer mistakes explain a sizable share of the brand premium for health products …
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Brand Loyalty, Generic Entry and Price Competition in Pharmaceuticals in the Quarter Century after the 1984 Waxman-Hatch Legislation
Berndt, Ernst R. - 2014
. Recent studies sponsored by the American Association of Retired Persons focus only on brand prices and ignore substitution to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069176
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The Evolution of Brand Preferences : Evidence from Consumer Migration
Bronnenberg, Bart J. - 2010
We study the long-run evolution of brand preferences, using new data on consumers' life histories and purchases of … advertising. Heterogeneity in brand preferences explains 40 percent of geographic variation in market shares. These preferences … years in the past still exerting a significant effect on current consumption. Counterfactuals suggest that brand preferences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139281
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Movies, Margins and Marketing : Encouraging the Adoption of Iron-Fortified Salt
Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2015
A set of randomized experiments shed light on how markets and information influence household decisions to adopt nutritional innovations. Of 400 Indian villages, we randomly assigned half to an intervention where all shopkeepers were offered the option to sell a new salt, fortified with both...
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Keeping the Doctor Away : Experimental Evidence on Investment in Preventative Health Products
Meredith, Jennifer - 2013
curves for health products in Kenya, Guatemala, India, and Uganda and test whether (1) information about health risk, (2 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013077947
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Do Trade Policy Differences Induce Sorting? Theory and Evidence from Bangladeshi Apparel Exporters
Demidova, Svetlana A. - 2009
This paper provides a new heterogeneous firm model for trade where firms differ in their productivity and experience different market demand shocks. The model incorporates variations in trade policy, trade preferences, and the rules of origin needed to obtain them, to reflect real world...
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Assessing the Effects of the Mfa/Atc from Us and World Trade Data after its Removal
Yao, Daqing - 2015
higher country concentration of exporters. We also find the effects of the MFA on clothing trade were more significant than … for textiles trade. The benefits from freer trade in textiles and clothing shed light on other sectors that are still …
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Rent Sharing in the Multi-Fibre Arrangement : Theory and Evidence from Us Apparel Imports from Hong Kong
Krishna, Kala; Erzan, Refik; Tan, Ling Hui - 2021
Available estimates of tariff equivalents of quotas and welfare calculations on the costs of MFA quotas for developing countries are based on the premise of perfect competition in both product and license markets. It is also assumed that the exporting countries which administer the MFA quotas...
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Tight Clothing : How the Mfa Affects Asian Apparel Exports
Evans, Carolyn L.; Harrigan, James - 2021
International trade in apparel and textiles is regulated by a system of bilateral tariffs and quotas known as the Multifiber Arrangement or MFA. Using a time series of detailed product-level data from the United States on the quotas and tariffs that comprise the MFA, we analyze how the MFA...
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