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Does the internet increase competition? To address this question, I exploit two institutional details unique to Germany …
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Beside its cost-efficient benefits, e-government plays an important role in reducing corruption. As most developing countries, especially in Africa are fighting corruption, e-government is seen as a new way of addressing it. E-government is thought to reduce corruption through increased...
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We develop a unifying framework to investigate the effects of firms’ internet presence on productivity and market … structure. Using information on website adoption as an indicator of online trading, we treat the decision of entering an e … information of companies’ online status. The period analysed is associated with the early stage of internet diffusion and our …
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theoretischen Grundlagen, auf die eine datenbankgestützte Website aufbaut, sowie deren Umsetzung mittels der Skriptsprache PHP 4 …The concept of a database driven website strictly separates between the design and layout of a webpage from the content … templates if a user requests the needed information.One of the most important advantages of a database driven website is the …
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The seaborne steam coal market changed in recent years. Trade volumes grew dynamically, important players emerged and since 2007 prices increased significantly and remained relatively high since then. In this paper we analyse market equilibria in the years 2006 and 2008 by testing for two...
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There exist a vast number of studies on the banking industry. However, the insurance industry remains relatively unexplored. Increasingly, Austrian insurance institutions are becoming important as financial intermediaries in the domestic market, and - based on proximity advantage - also in the...
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We investigate the causal effect of market structure on market performance in the consumer electronics. We combine data from Austria's largest online site for price comparisons with retail data on wholesale prices provided by a major hardware producer for consumer electronics. We observe input...
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Zeitraum 1995 bis 1999 empirisch der Einfluss der Marktstruktur auf die allgemeine Innovationsaktivität sowie speziell jene im …
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This paper examines empirically the relationship between innovation and market structure within a simultaneous framework at the industry level of aggregation. We use a model in which R&D affects both, demand and cost conditions. An optimization process leads to optimal industry R&D expenditure...
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