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99 cent : price points in e-commerce
Hackl, Franz; Kummer, Michael E.; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2010
Basu (2006) argues that the prevalence of 99 cent prices in shops can be explained with rational consumers who disregard the rightmost digits of the price. This bounded rational behaviour leads to a Bertrand equilibrium with positive markups. We use data from an Austrian price comparison site...
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Registered cartels in Austria : an overview
Fink, Nikolaus; Schmidt-Dengler, Philipp; Stahl, Konrad; … - 2015 - This version: 16 November 2015
Cartels were legal to a large extent in Austria until the country’s EU Accession in 1995. We examine archival material …
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Registered cartels in Austria : coding protocol
Fink, Nikolaus; Schmidt-Dengler, Philipp; Stahl, Konrad; … - 2014
In the period following WW II. until the country accessed the European Union, cartels were legalized in Austria, upon …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010458226
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Methodologische Grundlagen einer Evaluation von Wettbewerbspolitik
Hüschelrath, Kai - 2009
Arbeitsvorgabe erst einige Jahre vergangen sind, so hat die Bedeutung der Evaluation von Wettbewerbspolitik seitdem deutlich … von Wettbewerbspolitik und somit die Ableitung von Forschungsbedarf. -- Wettbewerbspolitik ; Evaluation ; Kartelle …
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Predation enforcement options : an evaluation using a Cournot framework
Hüschelrath, Kai; Weigand, Jürgen - 2010
The paper characterises the building blocks of a framework to enforce antipredation rules and subsequently evaluates selected enforcement options in a Cournot-type duopoly predation model. Differentiating between a no rule approach, an ex ante approach and two ex post approaches, it is shown...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008701358
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A methodology for the evaluation of competition policy
Hüschelrath, Kai; Leheyda, Nina - 2010
The paper develops a methodology for the evaluation of competition policy. Based on the existing literature and experiences with policy evaluations in other areas of economic activity, the three-step / nine-building-blocks methodology provides guidance for evaluation projects and also assists in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008701366
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The effects of the block exemption regulation reform on the Swiss car market
Leheyda, Nina; Beschorner, Patrick Frank Ernst; … - 2011
In 2002, the Swiss Competition Commission (COMCO) introduced a Notice on the Competitive Treatment of Vertical Restraints in Automobile Trade (‘Car Notice’). The objective of the Car Notice has been to strengthen competition in the Swiss car market, in particular by avoiding price-fixing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009011236
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Pension funds’ performance in strongly regulated industries in Central Europe : evidence from Poland and Hungary
Bohl, Martin T.; Lischewski, Judith; Voronkova, Svitlana - 2010
characterized by strong regulation of their private pension fund industries. Thus, the paper extends the literature which has so far … mostly focused on performance of pension fund industries facing no or limited regulation. We find that the performance of … fund management ; investment and performance regulation ; performance measurement ; Central European stock markets …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008665401
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The long-run effect of fiscal consolidation on economic growth : evidence from quantitative case studies
Kleis, Mischa; Moessinger, Marc-Daniel - 2016
We contribute to the literature on the long-run effect of fiscal consolidation on economic growth by applying a novel method for quantitative case studies. Relying on a qualitative (narrative) definition of fiscal consolidations based on an examination of historical policy documents and using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011490895
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The long-run effect of fiscal consolidation on economic growth : evidence from quantitative case studies
Kleis, Mischa; Moessinger, Marc-Daniel - 2016 - This version: November 2016
We contribute to the literature on the long-run effect of fiscal consolidation on economic growth by applying a novel method for quantitative case studies. Relying on a qualitative (narrative) definition of fiscal consolidations based on an examination of historical policy documents and using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011576967