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Menzel, Christoph - 2000

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Heimeshoff, Gerrit Ulrich - 2008

In the past decades telecommunications markets all over the world have changed immensely. Liberalization and privatization stimulated competition in fixed line telecommunications and helped increasing efficiency. Prices in fixed line telecommunications markets have decreased significantly, and...

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Finanzierungsmöglichkeiten im privaten Wohnbau

Schlager, Christian - 2009

Inhalt dieser Arbeit ist es, die Finanzierungsmöglichkeiten im privaten Wohnbau vorzustellen und deren Vor- und Nachteile aufzuzeigen. Ein umfangreicher Überblick über die verschiedenen Möglichkeiten soll eine Entscheidungshilfe für potentielle Kreditnehmer darstellen. Es ist nicht Ziel...

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The Law of One Price? The Impact of IT-Enabled Markets on Consumer Search and Retailer Pricing

Smith, Michael D. - 2001

Recent IT research has analyzed how the performance of IT-enabled markets may differ from conventional markets. This literature has made two unexpected empirical findings. First, ITenabled markets for commodity goods exhibit significant price dispersion. Second, well-known retailers in these...

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Welfare-Improving Collusion in the Japanese Pork Import Market

Fabiosa, Jacinto F. - 2000

structure that allows trade of quota. This collusion is welfare-improving since the safeguard induces more inefficiencies …

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Two-Part Tariffs versus Linear Pricing Between Manufacturers and Retailers: Empirical Tests on Differentiated Products Markets

Bonnet, C.; Dubois, Pierre; Simioni, Michel - 2006

We present a methodology allowing to introduce manufacturers and retailers vertical contracting in their pricing strategies on a differentiated product market. We consider in particular two types of non linear pricing relationships, one where resale price maintenance is used with two part...

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Breaking up is Hard to Do: Determinants of Cartel Duration

Levenstein, Margaret C. - 2010

We estimate the impact of cartel organizational features, as well as macroeconomic fluctuations and industry structure, on cartel duration using a dataset of contemporary international cartels. We estimate a proportional hazards model with competing risks, distinguishing factors which increase...

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Is It More Profitable to Post Prices? - Market Structure with Endogeneous Search Costs

Gong, Binglin - 2006

This dissertation contains three chapters. It analyzes a market where firms can choose whether or not to publicly post their prices. Price posting rewards a firm by reducing search costs for customers and thus attracting more demand, at the risk of triggering more direct price competition.In the...

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Antidumping Effects in the Presence of Collusion in an Upstream Market: the case of U.S. frozen shrimp imports from Thailand

Suchato, Ravissa - 2009

Many studies have shown a relationship between antidumping duty and collusion. These studies, however, only focus on … collusion in output (downstream) market, i.e. collusion between import competing firms and exporters, or among import competing … collusion among the exporters in Thai shrimp market at 1 % significant level. …

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Low-Wage Labor Markets and the Power of Suggestion

Shelkova, Natalya Y. - 2008

is dismissed. However, such behavior is not impossible. This paper investigates the possibility of tacit collusion by low … non-binding minimum wage may serve as a focal point for tacit collusion, proposing a symmetric solution to an infinitely … collusion. CPS monthly data is used for the years 1990-2005, covering the last four federal minimum wage increases. The …

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