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Nevo, Aviv - 2010

Models of consumer behavior play a key role in modern empirical Industrial Organization. In this paper, I survey some of the models used in this literature. In particular, I discuss two commonly used demand systems: multi-stage budgeting approaches and discrete choice models. I motivate their...

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Tax Policy, Location Choices, and Market Structure

Pfann, Gerard A.; van Kranenburg, Hans - 2002

A structural model of entry and fiscal policy is presented. It shows that taxation of variable production costs can increase product prices, lower competition, and reduce the availability of new products in small markets. The model?s test is based on a unique nationwide fiscal experiment. We...

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The Effect of Entertainment in Newspaper and Television News Coverage

Greiner, Tanja - 2010

In this paper, we analyze the equilibrium amount of entertainment in news coverage of newspapers and television stations. We find that a shift in the inclination to read, expressed by a shift in the (psychological) distance costs, induces both media outlets to incorporate more entertaining...

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Is a firm a firm? A Stackelberg experiment

Hildenbrand, Andreas - 2012

Industrial organization is mainly concerned with the behavior of large firms. Experimental industrial organization therefore faces a problem: How can firms be brought into the laboratory? The main approach relies on framing: Call individuals firms! This experimental approach is not in line with...

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Optimal Use of Rewards as Commitment Device When Bidding is Costly

Hu, Luke - 2012

This paper considers procurement auctions with costly bidding when the auctioneer is unable to commit himself to restrict the number of bidders. The auctioneer can, however, offer a financial reward to be paid to every short-listed bidders as an indirect commitment device. Rewards for...

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Diversified quality production revisited the transformation of production systems and regulatory regimes in Germany

Sorge, Arndt; Streeck, Wolfgang - 2016

We revisit the concept of Diversified Quality Production (DQP), which we introduced about thirty years ago. Our purpose is to examine the extent to which the concept can still be considered tenable for describing and explaining the development of the interaction between the political economy and...

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Is a firm a firm? A Stackelberg experiment

Hildenbrand, Andreas - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 7 (2013) 2013-20, pp. 1-26

theory. Experimental industrial organization, therefore, faces a problem: How can firms be brought into the laboratory? The …

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Industrial organization in the laboratory

Albert, Max; Hildenbrand, Andreas - 2012

throughout the paper is oligopoly theory, specifically, the Cournot and the Stackelberg model of duopolistic quantity competition … firms and received profits according to their chosen quantities. However, testing a theory in the laboratory requires that … the experimental design falls into the domain of the theory. The domain of mainstream IO is market behaviour of large (i …

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Die Zukunft der Festnetzbetreiber

Anell, Patrick; Elixmann, Dieter - 2008

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Corporate Social Responsibility and Competitive Advantage: Overcoming the Trust Barrier

Du, Shuili; Bhattacharya, C. B.; Sen, Sankar - 2010

This research builds on the complementary corporate social responsibility (CSR) literatures in strategy and marketing to provide insight into the efficacy of CSR as a challenger's competitive weapon against a market leader. Through an investigation of a real world CSR initiative, we show that...

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