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International trade and retailing
Eckel, Carsten - 2009
The New Trade Theory predicts that international trade lowers prices for consumers and expands the choices available to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300809
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Competition, innovation, and the effect of knowledge accumulation
Steinmetz, Alexander - 2010
The question this paper addresses is how the market structure evolves due to innovative activities when firms' level of technological competence is valuable for more than one project. The focus of the work is the analysis of the effect of learningbydoing and organizational forgetting in R&D on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300837
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Competition in Multi-Modal Transport Networks: A Dynamic Approach
van der Weijde, Adriaan Hendrik; Verhoef, Erik T.; van … - 2012
also occur. We also explore how different parameters influence the price differential, and how this affects welfare. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326294
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Voluntary approaches, market structure and competition
Brau, Rinaldo; Carraro, Carlo - 1999
This paper surveys the recent literature devoted to the analysis of the interactions between the adoption of voluntary or negotiated agreements as a tool of environmental policy and market structure. The goal of this survey is twofold. On the one hand, we would like to identify the market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608517
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Market structure, technological gap and vertical linkage effects from foreign direct investment
Kadochnikov, Sergey M.; Drapkin, Igor M. - 2008
This paper is based on the model of backward linkages from foreign direct investment (FDI) Lin/Saggi (2003), where the market structure of the final goods sector is represented by a monopoly or Cournot oligopoly, and the supplier sector - by a pure monopoly. We extend this model by examining...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264311
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International trade and retailing
Eckel, Carsten - 2009
The New Trade Theory predicts that international trade lowers prices for consumers and expands the choices available to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264598
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Price Discrimination in Input Markets: Downstream Entry and Welfare
Herweg, Fabian; Müller, Daniel - 2010
The extant theory on price discrimination in input markets takes the structure of the intermediate industry as …-degree price discrimination on market structure and welfare. We identify situations where banning price discrimination leads to … discontinuous due to entry being costly. Moreover, permitting price discrimination fosters entry which in many cases improves …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270421
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315515
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Green Lemons - Environmental Labels and Entry into an Environmentally Differentiated Market under Asymmetric Information
Kuhn, Michael - 1999
The paper inquires whether a public eco-label mitigatesadverse selection, where an ecologically superior (green) product variant is underprovided. A model, integrating entry into a perfectly competitive, vertically differentiated industry and rationally expected quality structure (REQS) under...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319327
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Asymmetric information and the market structure of the venture capital industry
Hyytinen, Ari; Toivanen, Otto - 2001
In this paper we study a horizontally differentiated market for financial in-termediation and develop a simple explanation for concentration in the financial intermediation industry. We show that under asymmetric information, if the demand for funds is not perfectly elastic, the heterogeneity of...
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