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Market liberalization: Price dispersion, price discrimination and consumer search in the German electricity markets

Gugler, Klaus; Heim, Sven; Janssen, Maarten C. W.; … - 2018

We study how consumer search affects pricing in markets with incumbents and entrants using panel data on German … electricity retail markets. Consumers observe the baseline price of the incumbent and decide whether or not to search. Incumbent … baseline rate while entrants decrease their tariffs if consumer search increases. Moreover, the incumbent price discriminates …

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Non-sequential search, competition and price dispersion in retail electricity

Gugler, Klaus; Heim, Sven; Liebensteiner, Mario - 2016

We investigate the impact of consumer search and competition on pricing strategies in Germany's electricity retail. We … utilize a unique panel dataset on spatially varying search requests at major online price comparison websites to construct a … direct measure of search intensity and combine this information with zip code level data on electricity tariffs between 2011 …

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Resale price maintenance and manufacturer competition for retail services

Hunold, Matthias; Muthers, Johannes - 2012

We investigate the incentives of manufacturers to use resale price maintenance (RPM) when selling products through common retailers. In our model retailers provide product specific pre-sales services. If the competitive retail margins are low, each manufacturer fixes a minimum price to induce...

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Resale price maintenance and manufacturer competition for retail services

Hunold, Matthias; Muthers, Johannes - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012

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Lohndispersion und Arbeitslosigkeit: Neuere Ansätze in der Suchtheorie

Garloff, Alfred - 2003

Aufbauend auf der Hypothese, dass Arbeitsmärkte durch unvollständige Information charakterisiert sind, werden in diesem Arbeitspapier neuere Entwicklungen innerhalb eines Zweiges informationsökonomischer Ansätze vorgestellt: der Suchtheorie. Dabei werden ausführlich insbesondere jene...

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Absorptive Capacity: One Size Fits All? Firm-level Analysis of Absorptive Capacity for Different Kinds of Knowledge

Schmidt, Tobias - 2005

The paper empirically analyses the effect of R&D activities, human resource and knowledge management, and the organisation of knowledge sharing within a firm on the absorptive capacity of innovative firms for three different types of knowledge, namely absorptive capacity to use knowledge from a...

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Who Chooses Whom? Syndication, Skills and Reputation

Tykvová, Tereza - 2005

Syndication, which is a joint realization of one project/one investment by several capital providers, is a long existing phenomenon that plays a central role in many financial market segments. Within this paper we develop a theoretical model focusing on the dynamic aspect of syndication, namely...

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Lost in Translation: Empirical Evidence for Liability of Foreignness as a Barrier to Knowledge Spillovers

Sofka, Wolfgang; Schmidt, Tobias - 2006

Entering host country networks of knowledge flows (new competencies, innovative technologies, and lead-market knowledge) is a major rationale of multinational firms for investing abroad. Foreign firms find it difficult to overcome cultural and social barriers which make their foreign engagements...

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Innovation Activities Abroad and the Effects of Liability of Foreignness: Where it Hurts

Sofka, Wolfgang - 2006

The innovation activities of foreign subsidiaries have been identified as an important source of competitive advantage for multinational corporations. The success of these engagements depends heavily on tapping host country pools of localized expertise. To achieve this foreign subsidiaries have...

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Internationalizing R&D Co-opetition: Dress for the Dance with the Devil

Schmiele, Anja; Sofka, Wolfgang - 2007

Competitors can be valuable sources and partners for innovation activities. Against the background of international expansion of firms and increased international competition, the R&D collaborations with international competitors (international co-opetition) is becoming an increasingly...

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