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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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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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Knowledge diffusion and knowledge transfer : two sides of the medal

Klarl, Torben - 2009

Understanding the way in which knowledge is technically produced and transferred, and how its diffusion path can be characterized is of fundamental importance for the performance of an economy. Although this fact seems to be plausible ex ante, the relevant literature so far has paid less...

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Small is beautiful : experimental evidence of donors’ preferences for charities

Borgloh, Sarah; Dannenberg, Astrid; Aretz, Bodo - 2010

This paper studies the effect of information about a charity’s size on individuals’ donations to that charity. We conducted a framed field experiment with a non-student sample, in which subjects had the opportunity to donate for various charitable purposes. The results show that if subjects...

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Resale price maintenance and manufacturer competition for retail services

Hunold, Matthias; Muthers, Johannes - 2012

; manufacturer dilemma ; matching ; retail service ; RPM ; vertical restraints …

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Peer effects in collaborative content generation : the evidence from German Wikipedia

Slivko, Olga - 2015 - This version: March 3, 2015

On Wikipedia, the largest online encyclopedia, editors who contribute to the same articles and exchange comments on articles’ talk pages work in collaborative manner engaging in communication about their work. Thus they can be considered as peers who are likely to influence each other. In this...

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Exposure to television and individual beliefs : evidence from a natural experiment

Hennighausen, Tanja - 2012 - This version: October 2012

Does the information provided by mass media have the power to persistently affect individual beliefs about the drivers of success in life? To answer this question empirically, this contribution exploits a natural experiment on the reception of West German television in the former German...

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Adverse selection and moral hazard in anonymous markets

Klein, Tobias J.; Lambertz, Christian; Stahl, Konrad - 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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Rockets and feathers : asymmetric pricing and consumer search : evidence from electricity retailing

Heim, Sven - 2016

Recent theories suggest that consumers' search efforts are a function of prices and prices changes, respectively. This … pass-through and consumer search intensity for the German electricity retail market utilizing a unique panel dataset on … retail electricity prices and consumer search intensity at online comparison sites for retail electricity, both at the zip …

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Money and privacy : Android market evidence

Kummer, Michael E.; Schulte, Patrick - 2014

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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