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Business models for interoperable mobility services
van den Berg, Vincent A.C.; Meurs, Henk; Verhoef, Erik T. - 2020
archetype ways in which MaaS could be operationalized: Integrator, Platform, and Intermediary. We find that these models differ …. Regulation of the price that the MaaS firm has to pay may further lower prices, but compared to the Integrator the difference is … or higher. The Platform tends to lead to an outcome that is relatively close to Free Competition without Maas: prices can …
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R&D Networks
Goyal, Sanjeev; Moraga, Jose Luis - 2000
We develop a model of strategic networks that captures two distinctive features of interfirm collaboration: bilateral agreements and nonexclusive relationships. Our analysis highlights the relationship between market competition, firms' incentives to invest in R&D, and the architecture of...
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The Elasticities of Complementarity and Substitution
Broer, Peter - 2004
This paper argues that the conventional definition of the elasticity of complementarity is not well suited to deal with the case of increasing returns. It proposes a slightly different formula, that uses a distance function formulation instead of a production function. The proposed definition...
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Costly Location in Hotelling Duopoly
Hinloopen, Jeroen; Martin, Stephen - 2013
We introduce a cost of location into Hotelling’s (1929) spatial duopoly. We derive the general conditions on the cost-of-location function under which a pure strategy price-location Nash equilibrium exists. With linear transportation cost and a suitably specified cost of location that rises...
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Insuring product markets
Hinloopen, Jeroen; Zhou, Lting - 2018
We formally link insurance markets with product markets and identify a demand effect of insurance: if risk-averse consumers can buy insurance against possible product failure, there will be some additional consumers that buy the product because they can also purchase protection. The concomitant...
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Will all autonomous cars cooperate? Brands' strategic interactions under dynamic congestion
Yu, Xiaojuan; van den Berg, Vincent; Verhoef, Erik; Li, … - 2022
Autonomous cars allow safe driving with a smaller headway than that required for normal human-driven cars, thereby potentially improving road capacity. To attain this capacity benefit, cooperation among autonomous cars is vital. However, the future market may have multiple car brands and the...
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Market Structure and the Pricing of New Products: A Nested Logit Approach with Asymmetric Firms
Bleker, Sylvia; Behrens, Christiaan; Koster, Paul; … - 2014
This article investigates competition in a market with an emerging technology using a discrete choice model to analyze demand and welfare. We focus on industry structure and investigate the impact of different market structures on demand for the new technology and on welfare. The car market...
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Regulation of Road Accident Externalities When Insurance Companies Have Market Power
Dementieva, Maria - 2013
Accident externalities are among the most important external costs of road transport. We study the regulation of these …
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Modelling the Joint Access Mode and Railway Station Choice
Debrezion, Ghebreegziabiher; Pels, Eric; Rietveld, Piet - 2007
This study models the choices of Dutch railway users (aggregated at the 4 digit post code area) for access mode and departure railway stations. For each post code area a set of four access modes: car, public transport, bicycle and walking and a set three departure railway stations are...
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Tax Competition under Minimum Rates: The Case of European Diesel Excises
Evers, Michiel; de Mooij, Ruud A.; Vollebergh, Herman R.J. - 2004
This paper estimates Nash-type fiscal reaction functions for European governments competing for revenue from diesel excises. It appears that European governments strategically set their excise levels by responding to their neighbors’ tax rates. This provides evidence for the presence of tax...
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