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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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The division of labor and the market for organizations

Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - 2000

in work organisation away from the traditional functional departments and towards multi-tasking and job rotation. Whereas …

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The division of labor and the market for organizations

Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - 2000

The paper examines the determinants of the division of labor within firms. It provides an explanation of the pervasive observed changes in work organization away from the traditional functional departments and towards multi-tasking and job rotation. Whereas the existing literature on the...

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The new institutional economics of antitrust and regulation

Bickenbach, Frank; Kumkar, Lars; Soltwedel, Rüdiger - 1999

Hybrid governance structures between markets and hierarchies in many industries, e.g., in energy and telecommunications, challenge antitrust and regulation policy. The paper focuses on the theoretical and methodological basis provided by the New Institutional Economics (NIE) for analyzing the...

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Empirical models of consumer behavior

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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Externalities, communication and the allocation of decision rights

Bester, Helmut - 2005

This paper views authority as the right to undertake decisions that impose externalities on other members of the organization. When only decision rights can be contractually assigned to one of the organization's stakeholders, the optimal assignment minimizes the resulting inefficiencies by...

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Division of labor, organizational coordination and markt mechanism in collective problem-solving

Marengo, Luigi; Dosi, Giovanni - 2003

This paper builds upon a view of economic system and individual economic organization as problem-solving arrangements and presents a simple model of adaptive problem-solving driven by trial-and-error and collective selection. The institutional structure, and in particular its degree of...

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Consistency in Organization

Schlicht, Ekkehart - 2003

Recent thinking has emphasized the importance of consistency in a firm?s compensation policy. By starting from Williamson?s ideas about idiosyncratic exchange, this view can be supplied with some theoretical foundation. At the same time, the consistency view can be applied to a number of...

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