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International Coordination of Quality Standards and Vertical Product Differentiation

Lutz, Stefan - 2003

I study the influence of minimum quality standards in a partial-equilibrium model of vertical product differentiation and trade in which duopolistic firms face quality-dependent costs and compete in quality and price in two segmented markets. Three alternative standard setting arrangements are...

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Mutual Recognition of National Minimum Quality Standards may Support International Convergence

Lutz, Stefan - 2003

In a model of vertical product differentiation, duopolistic firms face qualitydependent costs and compete in quality and price in two segmented markets. Minimum quality standards, set according to the principle of Mutual Recognition, can be used to increase welfare. The results of the one-shot...

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Unraveling firms: Demand, productivity and markups heterogeneity

Forlani, Emanuele; Martin, Ralf; Mion, Giordano; … - 2016

key firm-level outcomes: export status and size. …

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Explaining export success in the UK and German medical equipment industry

Anderton, Bob; Schultz, Siegfried - 1999

Diese Studie versucht zu einem besseren Verständnis von export performance und technologischer Leistungsfähigkeit …

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Network effects, compatibility decisions, and monopolization

Woeckener, Bernd - 1998

This paper analyzes the compatibility decision of a dominant hardware supplier. There are two substitutive variants of the hardware component of a hardware-software system, they are horizontally differentiated, and one of the two has a quality advantage. Among other things, we show under what...

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Standardization in information systems

Kimms, A. - 2001

common standard of data structures. Since establishing a standard at a system element incurs standardization costs, a … standard. In a recent paper, it is claimed that this so-called standardization problem is an NP-hard optimization problem. We … will demonstrate that this is not true, but in fact the standardization problem can be solved in polynomial time by solving …

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Firm size and monetary policy transmission: evidence from German business survey data

Ehrmann, Michael - 2004

Using business survey data on German manufacturing firms, this paper provides tests for hypotheses formulated in capital market imperfection theories that predict distributional effects in the transmission of monetary policy. The business conditions of small firms are found to be somewhat more...

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Employment Protection Legislation and the Size of Firms

Garibaldi, Pietro; Pacelli, Lia; Borgarello, Andrea - 2003

The existing literature ignores the fact that in most European countries the strictness of Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) varies across the firm size distribution. In Italy firms are obliged to rehire an unfairly dismissed worker only if they employ more than 15 employees....

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Skill-biased change in entrepreneurial technology

Poschke, Markus - 2010

. This paper proposes a simple theory of skill-biased change in entrepreneurial technology that fits with cross …

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Switching costs, firm size, and market structure

Loertscher, Simon; Schneider, Yves - 2005

In many markets, homogenous goods and services are sold both by large global frms and small local frms. Surprisingly, the large frms charge, often substantially, higher prices. Examples include hotels, airlines, and coffee shops. This paper provides a parsimonious model that can account for...

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