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Explaining export success in the UK and German medical equipment industry

Anderton, Bob; Schultz, Siegfried - 1999

particular emphasis on product quality, innovation and skills. The firm-level case studies support the conclusions arising from … and innovation arising from UK R&D is of a high but, compared to their German counterparts, UK firms often fail to …

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

Weiss, Christoph R.; Wittkopp, Antje - 2003

power affects food manufacturing firms incentives to invest in innovation of high quality food products. On the basis of a … Germany. Results of multinomial logit model show a moderate and negative impact of retailer market power on innovation of … seem to more effectively resist retailer market power in product innovation. …

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Two notes on trade gains

Kemp, Murray C. - 1995

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Vertikale Produktdifferenzierung im Außenhandel: Theoretische Grundlagen und empirischer Befund

Freudenberg, Michael; Trabold, Harald - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 68 (1999) 3, pp. 356-385

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Anti-dumping, intra-industry trade and quality reversals

Moraga-González, José Luis; Viaene, Jean-Marie - 2004

We examine an export game where two firms (home and foreign), located in two different countries, produce vertically differentiated products. The foreign firm is the most efficient in terms of R&D costs of quality development and the foreign country is relatively larger and endowed with a...

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Vertical product differentiation when quality is unobservable to buyers

Orosel, Gerhard O.; Zauner, Klaus G. - 2004

We analyze vertical product differentiation in a model where a good's quality is unobservable to buyers before purchase, a continuum of quality levels is technologically feasible, and minimum quality is supplied under competitive conditions. After purchase the true quality of the good is...

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Strikes, Scabs and Tread Separations: Labor Strife and the Production of Defective Bridgestone/Firestone Tires

Krueger, Alan B.; Mas, Alexandre - 2003

This paper provides a case study of the effect of labor relations on product quality. We consider whether a long, contentious strike and the hiring of replacement workers at Bridgestone/Firestone?s Decatur plant in the mid-1990s contributed to the production of defective tires. Using several...

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Asymmetric information and overinvestment in quality

Belleflamme, Paul; Peitz, Martin - 2009

In a standard adverse selection world, asymmetric information about product quality leads to quality deterioration in the market. Suppose that a higher investment level makes the realization of high quality more likely. Then, if consumers observe the investment (but not the realization of...

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Wealth as a signal in the search model of money

Okumura, Tsunao - 2005

This paper investigates the possibility that wealth (holdings of money) serves as a signal of ability to produce high quality products for agents who cannot directly observe the quality of the products. A producer's wealth may advertise past success in selling products to agents who knew the...

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The choice of environmental policy instruments: Energy efficiency and redistribution

Haupt, Alexander; Stadejek, Magdalena - 2010

We analyse optimal environmental policies in a market that is vertically differentiated in terms of the energy efficiency of products. Considering energy taxes, subsidies to firms for investment in more eco-friendly products, and product standards, we are particularly interested in how...

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