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Do Spillovers Stimulate Incremental or Drastic Product Innovations? Hypotheses and Evidence from German Establishment Data

Kraft, Kornelius; Jirjahn, Uwe - 2014

impact on incremental innovations. This impact is largely independent of the participation in R&D cooperations. Spillovers … for incremental innovations rather than for drastic innovations. To a limited degree R&D cooperations can help to overcome … the difficulties in using spillovers for drastic innovations. Furthermore, our estimates provide evidence that a firm …

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Analysing and Predicting Micro-Location Patterns of Software Firms

Kinne, Jan - 2017

While the effects of non-geographic aggregation on inference are well studied in economics, research on geographic aggregation is rather scarce. This knowledge gap together with the use of aggregated spatial units in previous firm location studies result in a lack of understanding of firm...

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Towards Accountability in Machine Learning Applications : A System-Testing Approach

Wan, Wayne Xinwei; Lindenthal, Thies - 2022

A rapidly expanding universe of technology-focused startups is trying to change and improve the way real estate markets operate. The undisputed predictive power of machine learning (ML) models often plays a crucial role in the ‘disruption’ of traditional processes. However, an accountability...

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Network Externalities and Interconnection Incentives

Vanberg, Margit A. - 2008

The majority of industrial organizations literature on network externalities looks at firm behavior under given market characteristics. The present paper instead asks the question whether the presence of network externalities can change market characteristics, specifically, whether an initially...

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Money and Privacy – Android Market Evidence

Kummer, Michael E. - 2015

We study the role of privacy in the market for mobile applications. For such programs used with smartphones and tablet PCs a very important market has emerged. Yet, neither the role of privacy on that market is well understood, nor do we have empirical evidence regarding its role therein. We...

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Consumer Salience and Quality Provision in (Un)Regulated Public Service Markets

Gu, Yiquan; Rasch, Alexander; Wenzel, Tobias - 2021

This paper examines the publication of quality indicators in service markets with public finance systems, such as education and healthcare markets. We provide a spatial model of product differentiation in which the reporting of such indicators increases consumers’ decision weight on quality...

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Who Should Pay for Certification?

Stahl, Konrad O.; Strausz, Roland - 2011

Who does, and who should initiate costly certification by a third party under asymmetric quality information, the buyer or the seller? Our answer - the seller - follows from a nontrivial analysis revealing a clear intuition. Buyer-induced certification acts as an inspection device,...

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When Private Information Settles the Bill : Money and Privacy in Google's Market for Smartphone Applications

Kummer, Michael E.; Schulte, Patrick - 2016

We shed light on a money-for-privacy trade-off in the market for smartphone applications (“apps”). Developers offer their apps cheaper in return for greater access to personal information, and consumers choose between lower prices and more privacy. We provide evidence for this pattern using...

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Implications of Network Convergence on Local Access Regulation in the U.S. and the EU

Vanberg, Margit A. - 2008

This paper provides an overview of telecommunications regulation in the U.S. and in Europe. For each region the history of telecommunications regulations as well as the current regulatory regime is portrayed. The focus of this overview is on the question of how unbundling regulations in the...

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Adverse Selection and Moral Hazard in Anonymous Markets

Klein, Tobias J.; Lambertz, Christian; Stahl, Konrad O. - 2013

We study the effects of improvements in eBay’s rating mechanism on seller exit and continuing sellers’ behavior. Following a large sample of sellers over time, we exploit the fact that the rating mechanism was changed to reduce strategic bias in buyer rating. That improvement did not lead to...

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