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The paper introduces a specification of the demand side which allows RPM to have different effects on prices and on service, which may increase or decrease due to RPM. A feature of the model which deviates from those found in the literature is due to the introduction of a class of consumers who...
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Die Monopolkommission fordert in ihrem XIII. Hauptgutachten die Abschaffung der Buchpreisbindung. Im Gegenzug hat sich die Bundesregierung für deren Erhalt ausgesprochen. Ist die Buchpreisbindung notwendig, um Qualität und Vielfalt auf dem Buchmarkt zu sichern? Wie ist sie aus ökonomischer...
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Für den Buchmarkt insgesamt verlief das Jahr 2005 im Vergleich zum gesamten Einzelhandel recht positiv. Der …
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Proponents of RPM argue that RPM helps to sustain a high level of service at the point of sale and that such a high level is efficient. This paper provides a simple model which leads to the following conclusions: 1) RPM may increase or decrease the level of service. 2) Whether the service level...
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The US Supreme Court's overruling of the pre-existing per se illegality of resale price maintenance and the recommendation of a rule of reason approach in the Leegin decision (2007), raise the question whether other jurisdictions should follow this approach and what future assessments of resale...
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The tensions between books and book markets as expressions of culture and books as products in profit-making businesses … good idea to harmonise European book policies. Our analysis suggests that the book market seems quite able to invent … solutions to specific problems of the book trade and that, apart from promoting reading, there is little need for government …
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Der Handel mit antiquarischen Büchern hat durch das Internet - zumindest aus Kundensicht - eine Umwälzung erfahren wie kaum eine andere Branche. In einer ersten empirischen Untersuchung der Preiswirkungen eines digitalen Marktplatzes für antiquarische Bücher konnte nicht festgestellt werden,...
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