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The use of traditional industry-level profitability indicators for assessing the state of competition is problematic for two reasons. First, short-term variation reflects business cycles more than it does the impact of competition policy. Second, rough industry-level indicators hide different...
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important implications for the distribution of income, the presence of optimizing behavior, and the existence of market power. …
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the expected cost needed to generate consumer surplus, the inefficiency occurring at the bottom of the type distribution …
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In markets for credence goods sellers are better informed than their customers about the quality that yields the highest surplus from trade. This paper studies second-degree price-discrimination in such markets. It shows that discrimination regards the amount of advice offered to customers and...
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This article studies the use of different distribution channels as an instrument of price discrimination in credence …
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, only those companies can survive which have the ability to adapt to these conditions. Controlling is a „helping hand“ of … negative developments of the company. This article concentrates on different ways of integration of controlling, especially … marketing-controlling in the company organization, so that the best decision should be taken. On one hand it is the objectivity …
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efficiency, and scale economies), and the distribution of the financial benefits of productivity change (consumers of postal …
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This study estimates productivity gains and their distribution among inputs and outputs for American industries over …
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Renewable resources provide society with resource rent and surpluses for resource users (the processing industry, consumers) and owners of production factors (capital and labor employed in resource harvesting). We show that resource users and factor owners may favor inefficiently high harvest...
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