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Halbheer, Daniel; Stahl, Florian; Koenigsberg, Oded; … - Institut für Betriebswirtschaftslehre, … - 2013

This paper studies content strategies for online publishers of digital information goods. It examines sampling … strategies and compares their performance to paid content and free content strategies. A sampling strategy, where some of the … industry. We analyze optimal decisions concerning the size of the sample and the price of the paid content when sampling serves …

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Il miglioramento qualitativo delle produzioni italiane: evidenze da prezzi e strategie delle imprese

Giacinto, Valter Di; Micucci, Giacinto - In: ECONOMIA E POLITICA INDUSTRIALE 2012/4 (2012) 4, pp. 63-110

Even before the global crisis, the Italian economy was experiencing international difficulties, although the slow growth and declining share of world trade were accompanied by a perceptible process of manufacturing transformation. The paper uses data from the Bank of Italy’s survey of...

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Beyond the adoption/ non-adoption dichotomy: the impact of innovation characteristics on potential adopters' transition through adoption process stages

Frambach, R.T.; Agarwal, M.K.; Nijssen, E.J. - VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics, Business … - 2002

Research on innovation adoption has suffered from a bias towards understanding the factors that affect the dichotomous adoption/non-adoption decision. Much less attention is devoted to the question why potential adopters fail to progress to the adoption stage from earlier stages in the decision...

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Interactions between competition and consumer policy

Armstrong, Mark - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This paper discusses complementarities and tensions between competition policies and consumer protection policies. The paper argues that markets will often supply adequate customer protection without the need for extra public intervention. Special areas where intervention might be needed are...

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Credence Goods, Consumer Misinformation, and Quality

Baksi, Soham; Bose, Pinaki; Xiang, Di - Department of Economics, University of Winnipeg - 2012

For certain products, consumers' misinformation about quality is more endemic at intermediate levels of the quality spectrum rather than at the top or the bottom levels of quality. Using an oligopoly model of vertical product differentiation with three quality levels - green, natural, and brown...

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EXPERTS’ AWARDS AND ECONOMIC SUCCESS: EVIDENCE FROM AN ITALIAN LITERARY PRIZE

Ponzo, Michela; Scoppa, Vincenzo - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Statistiche e … - 2013

Product quality is often unobservable ex-ante and consumers rely on experts’ judgments, sometimes coming under the form of ratings or awards. Do awards affect consumers’ choices or they are conferred to the most popular products? To disentangle this issue, we use data of the most important...

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Optimizing Information in the Herd

Sgroi, Daniel - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2000

Herding arises when an agents private information is swamped by public information in what Jackson and Kalai (1997) call a recurring game. The agent will fail to reveal his own information and will follow the actions of his predecessor and, as a result, useful information is lost, which might...

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Використання статистичних методів управління якістю в логістичному процесі (Using Statistical Methods of Quality Management in Logistics Processes)...

Tkachenko, Alla; Ivanova, Marina - 2017

analysis, reliability analysis, sampling, modeling, maps of statistical process control, specification of statistical tolerance …

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The Anti-Red Shift -- to the Dark Side: Changes in the Colour Patterns and Market Values of Flemish Luxury Woollens, 1300 - 1550

Munro, John H. A. - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2006

The Anti-Red Shift -- to the Dark Side: Changes in the Colour Patterns and Market Values of Flemish Luxury Woollens, 1300 - 1550 This study documents, though it cannot fully explain, the striking shift in the spectrum of colour patterns in woollen textiles, from those of the Black Death era in...

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Necessities and Luxuries in Early-Modern Textile Consumption: Real Values of Worsted Says and Fine Woollens in the Sixteenth-Century Low Countries

Munro, John H. - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2008

If mankind’s three basic necessities have always been food, clothing, and shelter, whose production, trade, and consumption have rightly been a primary focus of economists and economic historians for many generations, we may ask this vital question: how do they distinguish between necessities...

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