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The Effects of Website Provision on the Demand for German Women's Magazines
Kaiser, Ulrich - 2002
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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Links and Hyperlinks : An Empirical Analysis of Internet Portal Alliances, 1995-1999
Elfenbein, Dan - 2001
This paper examines the structure of over 100 alliances by Internet portals from 1995 to 1999. These alliances were an …
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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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If at First You Don't Succeed... : Profits, Prices and Market Structure in a Model of Quality with Unknowable Consumer Heterogeneity
Krishna, Kala - 2000
Why are higher quality niches seen as intrinsically more profitable in business circles? Why do high quality products sometimes have a low real price, while it is unusual to see low quality products with high real prices? Can markets have quality differentiation as well as quality bunching? In...
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Market Structure and the Persistence of Sectoral Real Exchange Rates
Cheung, Yin-Wong - 1999
We examine the relationship between market structure and the persistence of U.S. dollar-based sectoral real exchange rates for fourteen OECD countries. Our empirical results based on disaggregated data suggest that differences in market structure significantly determine the rates at which...
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Strategic Fragmented Markets
Babus, Ana; Parlatore, Cecilia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We study the determinants of asset market fragmentation in a model with strategic investors that disagree about the value of an asset. Investors' choices determine the market structure. Fragmented markets are supported in equilibrium when disagreement between investors is low. In this case,...
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Concentration in Product Markets
Benkard, C. Lanier; Yurukoglu, Ali; Zhang, Anthony Lee - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper uses new data to reexamine trends in concentration in U.S. markets from 1994 to 2019. The paper's main contribution is to construct concentration measures that reflect narrowly defined consumption-based product markets, as would be defined in an antitrust setting, while accounting for...
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Market Structure and Monetary Non-neutrality
Mongey, Simon - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
I study a general equilibrium menu cost model with a continuum of sectors, idiosyncratic and aggregate shocks, and the novel feature that each sector consists of strategically engaged firms. Compared to an economy with monopolistically competitive sectors--separately parameterized to match the...
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Structural Empirical Analysis of Contracting in Vertical Markets
Lee, Robin S.; Whinston, Michael D.; Yurukoglu, Ali - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This chapter presents an overview of advances in the structural analysis of contracting in vertical markets over the past fifteen years. We provide a discussion of theoretical models of contracting and bargaining that form the basis of recent empirical work, and then present common approaches...
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Intermediaries in Bargaining : Evidence from Business-to-Business Used-Car Inventory Negotiations
Larsen, Bradley J.; Lu, Hengheng; Zhang, Anthony Lee - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We analyze data on tens of thousands of alternating-offer, business-to-business negotiations in the wholesale used-car market, with each negotiation mediated (over the phone) by a third-party company. The data shows the identity of the employee mediating the negotiations. We find that who...
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