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Services in the Domestic Economy and in World Transactions
Kravis, Irving B. - 1983
A new interest in the role of services in world transactions has been generated by the current efforts of the U. S …. Government to reduce barriers to international trade in services.The paper distinguishes four different classifications of … economic activities between services and corrmodities. Service industries -- those producing non-storable outputs -- have been …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477978
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Tying, Upgrades, and Switching Costs in Durable-Goods Markets
Carlton, Dennis W. - 2005
This paper investigates the role of product upgrades and consumer switching costs in the tying of complementary products. Previous analyses of tying have found that a monopolist of one product cannot increase its profits and reduce social welfare by tying and monopolizing a complementary product...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467274
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The Strategic Use of Tying to Preserve and Create Market Power in Evolving Industries
Carlton, Dennis W. - 1998
This paper investigates how the tying of complementary products can be used to preserve and extend monopoly positions. We first show how a firm that is a monopolist of a product in the current period can use tying to preserve its monopoly position in future periods. We then show using related...
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A Theory of Bundling Advertisements in Media Markets
Murphy, Kevin M. - 2016
perform in developed countries. We present a dynamic theory of commercial broadcasting where the media trade utility …-raising goods (programs, information, and services) with audiences in exchange for their exposure to advertisements (utility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455686
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Identification and Efficiency Bounds for the Average Match Function under Conditionally Exogenous Matching
Graham, Bryan S. - 2016
Consider two heterogenous populations of agents who, when matched, jointly produce an output, `Y`. For example, teachers and classrooms of students together produce achievement, parents raise children, whose life outcomes vary in adulthood, assembly plant managers and workers produce a certain...
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Self-Signaling and Prosocial Behavior : a Cause Marketing Mobile Field Experiment
Dubé, Jean-Pierre - 2015
We empirically test an information economics based theory of social preferences in which ego utility and self … a large price discount for the good. The combined evidence supports the self-signaling theory whereby price discounts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457193
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Expansion of Trade at the Extensive Margin : A General Gains-from-Trade Result and Illustrative Examples
Markusen, James R. - 2010
) by adding newly traded goods and services and that much of this new trade is in intermediates. I provide an extension of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462725
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The Structure and Conduct of Corporate Lobbying : How Firms Lobby the Federal Communications Commission
de Figueiredo, John M. - 2000
lobbying (internal organization vs. trade association) by firms in administrative agencies. It explores the power and limitations of the collective action theories and transaction cost theories in explaining lobbying. It introduces a dataset of over 900 lobbying contacts cover 101 issues at the...
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Discriminating Among Alternative Theories of the Multinational Enterprise
Markusen, James R. - 1999
trade. One simple taxonomy separates the theory into vertical' models in which firms geographically separate activities by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471623
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Frictions in Product Markets
Gavazza, Alessandro; Lizzeri, Alessandro - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This is an invited chapter for the forthcoming Volume 4 of the Handbook of Industrial Organization. We focus on markets with frictions, such as transaction costs, asymmetric information, search and matching frictions. We discuss how such frictions affect allocations, favor the emergence of...
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