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Corporate competition: A self-organized network

Braha, Dan; Stacey, Blake; Bar-Yam, Yaneer - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

organizational networks by mapping, analyzing and modeling the spatial structure of a large interfirm competition network across a … network formation give comparable results. There is an asymmetry between companies that are considered competitors, and … with geographic distance. We construct these properties by growing a corporate network with competitive links using random …

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Taking Stock : Journalism and the Publicly Traded Newspaper Company

Bezanson, Randall P. - 2003

quot;Taking Stockquot; explores the place of newspaper journalism in the publicly traded newspaper companies. It does so through an analysis at the level of the firm and the organization of the publicly held business entity and its subsidiaries, analyzing financial operations, organization and...

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Middlemen: A Directed Search Equilibrium Approach

Watanabe, Makoto - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

This paper studies an intermediated market operated by middlemen with high inventory holdings. I present a directed search model in which middlemen are less likely to experience a stockout because they have the advantage of inventory capacity, relative to other sellers. The model explains why...

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E-commerce and the Market Structure of Retail Industries

Syverson, Chad; Goldmanis, Maris; Hortacsu, Ali; Emre, Onsel - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

While a fast-growing body of research has looked at how the advent and diffusion of e-commerce has affected prices, much less work has investigated e-commerce's impact on the number and type of producers operating in an industry. This paper theoretically and empirically takes up the question of...

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What Can the Price Gap between Branded and Private Label Products Tell Us about Markups?

Barsky, Robert; Bergen, Mark; Dutta, Shantanu; Levy, Daniel - Department of Economics, Bar Ilan University - 2002

In this paper we investigate the size of markups for nationally branded products sold in the U.S. retail grocery industry. Using scanner data from a large Midwestern supermarket chain, we compute several measures of upper and lower bounds on markup ratios for over 230 nationally branded products...

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Hedonic methods for baskets of goods

Griffith, Rachel; Nesheim, Lars - In: Economics Letters 120 (2013) 2, pp. 284-287

Existing hedonic methods cannot be easily adapted to estimate willingness to pay for product characteristics when willingness to pay depends on a very large basket of goods. We show how to marry these methods with revealed preference arguments to estimate bounds on willingness to pay using data...

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Platform Pricing at Sports Card Conventions

Rysman, Marc; Jin, Ginger Zhe - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

We study a new data set of US sports card conventions in order to evaluate the pricing theory of two-sided markets …

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"Uncertainty in the Movies: Does Star Power Reduce the Terror of the Box Office?".

De Vany, A.; Walls, W.D. - California Irvine - School of Social Sciences - 1999

Everyone knows that the movie business is risky. But how risky is it? Do strategies exist that reduce risk? We investigate these questions using a sample of over 200 motion pictures. We discover that the movies are very risky indeed. Box-office revenues are asymptotically Pareto-distributed and...

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The Effect of Organization Culture and Uncertainty in Supply Chain Management - The Albanian Beer Industry

Mamillo, Denisa - In: Theory Methodology Practice (TMP) 10 (2014), pp. 49-57

Although research interest in supply chain management is growing, no such research has been done in Albania. This paper is one of the first to investigate supply chain management practices in the Albanian beer industry and the effect of supply chain uncertainty and organizational culture on...

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Service gratuities and tipping: A motivational framework

Lynn, Michael - In: Journal of Economic Psychology 46 (2015) C, pp. 74-88

In many countries around the world, consumers leave voluntary payments of money (called “tips”) to service workers who have served them. Since tips are an expense that consumers are free to avoid, tipping is an anomalous behavior that many economists regard as “irrational” or...

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