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Smart entry in local retail markets for electricity and natural gas
Bartholomae, Florian W.; Morasch, Karl; Tóth, Rita Orsolya - 2009
mit einer festen Marge dem traditionellen Eintritt mit anschließendem Preiswettbewerb überlegen ist, da dem etablierten … Unternehmen die Möglichkeit genommen wird, mittels der impliziten Androhung einer Preissenkung (Limit Pricing) den Markteintritt … Unternehmen zwar den Markteintritt nicht durch eine Senkung des Preises verhindern kann, dass aber eine Erhöhung des Preises bei …
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Does Entry Regulation Hinder Job Creation? Evidence from the French Retail Industry
Bertrand, Marianne; Kramarz, Francis - 2002
Are product market and entry regulation key sources of low employment growth in many European countries? We investigate this question in the context of the French retail trade industry. Since 1974, approval by regional zoning boards has been required for the creation or extension of any large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261526
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Price and Inventory Dynamics in an Oligopoly Industry: A Framework for Commodity Markets
Steinmetz, Alexander - 2010
This paper analyzes the interaction between price and inventory decisions in an oligopoly industry and its implications for the dynamics of prices. The work extends existing literature and especially the work of Hall and Rust (2007) to endogenous prices and strategic oligopoly competition. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294737
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Turkey and the Ankara Treaty of 1963: What can Trade Integration Do for Turkish Exports
Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas; Herzer, Dierk; … - 2005
This paper investigates the trade effects of Turkey?s trade integration into the EU. To this end sectoral trade flows to the EU based on panel data from the period 1988 to 2002 are examined concentrating on Turkey?s sixteen most important export sectors. Emphasis is placed on the role of price...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296392
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Licensing by a monopolist and unionized labor market
Mukherjee, Soma; Broll, Udo; Mukherjee, Arijit - 2007
We show that a monopolist final goods producer may find it profitable to create competition by licensing its technology if the input market is imperfectly competitive. With a centralized union, we show that licensing by a monopolist is profitable under both uniform and discriminatory wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296821
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Price and inventory dynamics in an oligopoly industry: A framework for commodity markets
Steinmetz, Alexander - 2010
This paper analyzes the interaction between price and inventory decisions in an oligopoly industry and its implications for the dynamics of prices. The work extends existing literature and especially the work of Hall and Rust (2007) to endogenous prices and strategic oligopoly competition. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300834
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Price Competition and Product Differentiation when Consumers Care for the Environment
Conrad, Klaus - 2003
Increasing environmental awareness may affect the pleasure of consuming a good for which an environmental friendly substitute is available. When deciding to buy differentiated products, a compromise is sometimes made between preferred characteristics of the good and its environmental properties....
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Price competition on network
Lever Guzmán, Carlos - 2011
We present a model of imperfect price competition where not all firms can sell to all consumers. A network structure models the local interaction of firms and consumers. We find that aggregate surplus is maximized with a fully connected network, which corresponds to perfect competition, and...
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Einzelhandelsversorgung außerhalb der Verdichtungskerne: Probleme und neue Anforderungen durch demographischen Wandel. Analyse und Lösungsansätze
Gräf, Peter - In: Einzelhandel in Nordrhein-Westfalen planvoll steuern!, (pp. 30-38). 2012
Der Einzelhandel in der Bandbreite seiner heutigen Erscheinungsformen hat auf der Angebotsseite sowie auf der …
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Signal-Jamming in a Sequential Auction
Ding, Wei; Jeitschko, Thomas D.; Wolfstetter, Elmar G. - 2009
In a recurring auction early bids may reveal bidders' types, which in turn affects bidding in later auctions. Bidders take this into account and may bid in a way that conceals their private information until the last auction is played. The present paper analyzes the equilibrium of a sequence of...
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