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Consumers and the brain drain: product design and the gains from emigration
Kuhn, Peter; McAusland, Carol - 2008
We consider the welfare effects of skilled worker emigration in a context where skilled labor plays a role in product design. We show such emigration can benefit the residents left behind, even when consumers' tastes exhibit a form of home bias. This is because emigration improves the design of...
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Product quality, informality, and child labour
Fotoniata, Eugenia; Moutos, Thomas - 2011
This paper studies the interactions between the structure of product demand, relative wages, and the allocation of economic activity across two sectors. The agrarian sector produces a homogeneous good and consists of informal firms employing adults and children. The modern sector produces a...
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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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International Coordination of Quality Standards and Vertical Product Differentiation
Lutz, Stefan - 2003
and trade in which duopolistic firms face quality-dependent costs and compete in quality and price in two segmented …
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The Effects of Quotas on Vertical Intra-Industry Trade
Lutz, Stefan H. - 2002
A quota on foreign competition will generally lead to quality-upgrading (downgrading) of the low-quality (high-quality) firm, an increase in average quality, a reduction of quality differentiation, and a reduction of domestic consumer surplus, irrespective of whether the foreign firm produces...
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Mutual Recognition of National Minimum Quality Standards may Support International Convergence
Lutz, Stefan - 2003
and price in two segmented markets. Minimum quality standards, set according to the principle of Mutual Recognition, can …
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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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Can price discrimination lead to product differentiation? A vertical differentiation model
Herweg, Fabian - 2007
In this paper, I compare two-part tariff competition to linear pricing in a vertically differentiated duopoly. Consumers have identical tastes for quality but differ in their preferences for quantity. The main finding is that quality differentiation occurs in equilibrium if and only if two-part...
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Accidents, liability obligations and monopolized markets for spare parts: profits and social welfare
Baake, Pio - 2008
We analyze the effects of accidents and liability obligations on the incentives of car manufacturers to monopolize the markets for their spare parts. We show that monopolized markets for spare parts lead to higher overall expenditures for consumers. Furthermore, while the manufacturers invest...
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