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Strategic Incompatibility in ATM Markets

Knittel, Christopher R. - 2006

We test whether firms use incompatibility strategically, using data from ATM markets. High ATM fees degrade the value of competitors' deposit accounts, and can in principle serve as a mechanism for siphoning depositors away from competitors or for creating deposit account differentiation. Our...

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Market Segmentation and the Sources of Rents from Innovation : Personal Computers in the Late 1980's

Bresnahan, Timothy F. - 1996

This paper evaluates the sources of transitory market power in the market for personal computers (PCs) during the late 1980's. Our analysis is motivated by the coexistence of low entry barriers into the PC industry and high rates of innovative investment by a small number of PC manufacturers. We...

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The Theory of Allocation and Its Implications for Marketing and Industrial Structure

Carlton, Dennis W. - 1991

This paper identifies a cost of using the price system and from that develops a general theory of allocation. The … theory explains why a buyer's stochastic purchasing behavior matters to a seller. This leads to a theory of optimal customer … mix much akin to the theory of optimal portfolio composition. It is the job of a firm's marketing department to put …

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The Inner Workings of the Patient Centered Medical Home Model

David, Guy - 2016

The patient-centered medical home (PCMH) is a model for restructuring primary care with a focus on improved access to care and clinical excellence. However, to date, the evidence on its effect on healthcare utilization and expenditures has been quite mixed. One possible reason for this may lie...

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Customer Capital

Gourio, Francois - 2011

Firms spend substantial resources on marketing and selling. Interpreting this as evidence of frictions in product markets, which require firms to spend resources on customer acquisition, this paper develops a search theoretic model of firm dynamics in frictional product markets. Introducing...

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Measuring Customer Churn and Interconnectedness

Baker, Scott R. - 2020

This paper demonstrates that it is possible to construct accurate pictures of firm revenue, growth, geographic dispersion, and customer base characteristics using an increasingly accessible class of consumer financial transaction data. We develop two new measures which characterize firms'...

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Deposit Insurance Database

Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli - 2014

This paper provides a comprehensive, global database of deposit insurance arrangements as of 2013. We extend our earlier dataset by including recent adopters of deposit insurance and information on the use of government guarantees on banks' assets and liabilities, including during the recent...

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Webmunk : A New Tool for Studying Online Behavior and Digital Platforms

Farronato, Chiara; Fradkin, Andrey; Karr, Chris - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Understanding the behavior of users online is important for researchers, policymakers, and private companies alike. But observing online behavior and conducting experiments is difficult without direct access to the user base and software of technology companies. We introduce Webmunk, an...

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Creating markets for new vaccines

Kremer, Michael - 2000

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Creating Markets for New Vaccines Part I : Rationale

Kremer, Michael - 2000

Malaria, tuberculosis, and the strains of HIV common in Africa kill approximately 5 million people each year. Yet research on vaccines for these diseases remains minimal largely because potential vaccine developers fear that they would not be able to sell enough vaccine at a sufficient price to...

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