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Buyer Power and Innovation of Quality Products: Empirical Evidence from the German Food Sector.

Weiss, Christoph R.; Wittkopp, Antje - 2003

The last couple of decades have seen an increased retail concentration around the world, particularly in Europe. Views on the welfare implications of this severe change are controversial. Consumers might benefit because larger stores (owned by larger retailer chains) offer more product choices....

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Explaining export success in the UK and German medical equipment industry

Anderton, Bob; Schultz, Siegfried - 1999

This paper aims to provide understanding of the relative trade performances and technological competitiveness, with particular emphasis on product quality, innovation and skills. The firm-level case studies support the conclusions arising from the aggregate analysis. Germany spends more on...

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Quality competition versus price competition goods: An empirical classification

Baldwin, Richard E.; Ito, Tadashi - 2008

(QHFT) model, we classify export goods (at the HS 6-digit level of disaggregation) by quality and price competition. We find …

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Minimum quality standards and novelty requirements in a one-shot development race

Prokop, Jacek; Regibeau, Pierre; Rockett, Katharine - 2009

The authors examine the timing and quality of product introduction in an R&D stopping game, where they allow for horizontal and vertical differentiation in the product market. They observe that discontinuous changes in introduction dates can occur as firms' abilities as researchers change....

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Minimum quality standards and novelty requirements in a one-short development race

Prokop, Jacek; Regibeau, Pierre; Rockett, Katharine - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 4 (2010) 2010-15, pp. 1-49

We examine the timing and quality of product introduction in an R&D stopping game, where we allow for horizontal and vertical differentiation in the product market. We observe that discontinuous changes in introduction dates can occur as firms' abilities as researchers change. Further, when the...

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Quality and welfare in a mixed duopoly with regulated prices: The case of a public and a private hospital

Herr, Annika - 2010

Hospital markets are often characterised by price regulation and the existence of different ownership types. Using a …, profits, and overall welfare in a price regulated duopoly with exogenous symmetric locations. In contrast to other studies on … driving force is the single regulated price which induces under-(over-)provision of quality of the more (less) efficient …

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Competition in the market for supplementary health insurance: The case of competing nonprofit sickness funds

Ellert, Alexander; Urmann, Oliver - 2012

This paper examines the competition of nonprofit sickness funds in the market for supplementary health insurance. We investigate product quality strategies when quality is costly and the sickness funds are competing for customers. As long as the sickness funds choose the qualities for...

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Die Signalwirkung des Vorankündigungsaufwandes und von Patentinformationen in kundenorientierten Produkt-Vorankündigungen

Ernst, Holger; Schnoor, Anje - 1999

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Education, Income Distribution and Innovation

Shen, Ling - 2004

In this paper we study the impact of the income distribution on innovation through the demand for quality goods. For simplicity, we assume that there are two types of consumers, rich and poor. The income distribution is measured by the population share of the poor and the relative income of the...

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Exploration and exploitation: the role of entrepreneurship and R&D in the process of innovation

Keilbach, Max; Sanders, Mark - 2007

We formulate a model that explicitly separates two functions in the innovation process: The introduction of new goods and the quality improvement of existing goods. While the latter is performed by the corporate R&D sector, the first is performed by entrepreneurs. We show that in a three sector...

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