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Certification and market transparency
Stahl, Konrad; Strausz, Roland - 2014
We provide elementary insights into the effectiveness of certification to increase market transparency. In a market with opaque product quality, sellers use certification as a signaling device, while buyers use it as an inspection device. This difference alone implies that seller-certification...
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A brand specific investigation of international cost shock threats on price and margin with a manufacturer-wholesaler-retailer model
Dannewald, Till; Hildebrandt, Lutz - 2008
In times of increasing oil prices and a weak dollar, European companies that focus their business on the US market may find themselves in a weak position. While many businesses can hedge this kind of risk by relocating production to the US, or employing financial remedies, these strategies may...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003796133
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A slab in the face : building quality and neighborhood effects
Schulz, Rainer; Wersing, Martin - 2012
The quality of newly constructed single-family houses is usually homogeneous in and heterogeneous between neighborhoods. Such quality-clustering will be caused by the variation of natural amenities throughout a suburban area. Clustering will be enforced if the quality of neighboring buildings...
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An empirical test of theories of price valuation using a semiparametric approach, reference prices, and accounting for heterogeneity
Boztuğ, Yasemin (contributor);  … - 2005
major theories are proposed to model the reference price reaction: assimilation contrast theory and prospect theory. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003324130
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"Buy-It-Now" or "Sell-It-Now" auctions : Effects of changing bargaining power in sequential trading mechanisms
Grebe, Tim; Ivanova-Stenzel, Radosveta; Kröger, Sabine - 2015
We study experimentally the effect of bargaining power in sequential trading mechanisms that offer the possibility to trade at a fixed price before an auction. In the "Buy-It-Now" format, the seller offers a price prior to the auction; whereas in the "Sell-It-No" format, it is the buyer. Both...
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A theory of price adjustment under loss aversion
Ahrens, Steffen; Pirschel, Inske; Snower, Dennis J. - 2014
We present a new partial equilibrium theory of price adjustment, based on consumer loss aversion. In line with prospect … theory, the consumers' perceived utility losses from price increases are weighted more heavily than the perceived utility … an otherwise standard dynamic neoclassical model of monopolistic competition. The resulting theory of price adjustment is …
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Optimal sticky prices under rational inattention
Maćkowiak, Bartosz (contributor);  … - 2005
In the data, individual prices change frequently and by large amounts. In standard sticky price models, frequent and large price changes imply a fast response of the aggregate price level to nominal shocks. This paper presents a model in which price setting firms optimally decide what to...
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Are correlations constant over time? : application of the CC-TRIGt-test to return series from different asset classes
Fischer, Matthias (contributor) - 2007
A new test for constant correlation is proposed. Based on the bivariate Student-t distribution, this test is derived as Lagrange multiplier (LM) test. Whereas most of the traditional tests (e.g. Jennrich, 1970, Tang, 1995 and Goetzmann, Li & Rouwenhorst, 2005) specify the unknown correlations as...
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Uncertain paternity, mating market failure, and the institution of marriage
Bethmann, Dirk (contributor); Kvasnicka, Michael (contributor) - 2007
This paper provides a first microeconomic foundation for the institution of marriage. Based on a model of reproduction, mating, and parental investment in children, we argue that marriage serves the purpose of attenuating the risk of mating market failure that arises from incomplete information...
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Ideology without ideologists
Mechtenberg, Lydia (contributor) - 2007
Generally, Democrats do not increase military spending, and Republicans do not raise welfare payments. Mostly, ruling politicians stick to the manifesto of their party. The current paper provides a theoretical explanation for this phenomenon that does not assume politicians or voters to be...
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