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containing more than 23,000 price observations from the online market for contact lenses as well as detailed information about … empirical results reveal evidence for lower prices and less price dispersion among e-retailers in comparison to hybrid retailers … in retailer service. A decomposition of the price differential reveals that there may indeed be a competition effect. …
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display that price, demand, and labor supply shocks affect unemployment significantly in the short/medium run. Interestingly …
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abundance of hard coal and the price of hard coal are the two variables of our major interest. We assume that countries with an … coal abundance or the accessibility of hard coal, respectively, the hard coal price, the level of foreign direct investment …
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the high-frequency EUA price dynamics are very well captured by a fractionally integrated asymmetric power GARCH process …
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We use publicly available price data from the German cement industry to estimate the cartelinduced price increase. We …-cartel period on the overcharge estimate. We find that the cement cartel led to price overcharges in a range from 20.3 to 26 …
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larger price increases than mergerrelated exits. Within the merger category, our analysis reveals significant price increases …
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cement producers to study the value of such transaction data for an estimation of cartel damages. In particular, we … an application of before-and-after approaches to estimate the price overcharge can benefit from such rich data sets. We …
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This paper asks whether the gap in subjective happiness between spouses matters per se, i.e. whether it predicts divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we find that a higher satisfaction gap, even in the first...
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In many situations the applied researcher wants to combine different data sources without knowing the exact link and merging rule. This paper introduces a theoretical framework how two different regional administrative data sources can be merged. It presents different merging schemes based on...
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Employee resistance against innovations is a virulent phenomenon and there is a broad theoretical literature on its determinants. The empirical evidence is scarce, however, and mainly provides descriptive evidence on the incidence of the phenomenon and concentrates on the effectiveness of change...
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