This study examines the effects of television advertising on consumer demand for carbonated soft drinks using a random … advertising decreases the price elasticity of demand, indicating that advertising plays predominantly a persuasive, therefore anti …

intensity, in labour productivity growth in the retail electricity distribution enterprise. Electricity demand in industry is …, reliability and personnel. The impacts of changes in the dynamics of competition in the deregulated retail electricity market on …

This article compares the development of labour productivity in the Swedish and the Finnish business sectors and the … productivity level has been converging towards the Swedish level, but that there is still a significant difference. This trend has … coincided with the growing importance of the ICT sector, especially since the mid 1990s. Due to higher productivity and …

This paper reviews recent studies on the links between competition, innovation and productivity growth in the long run …. From a long-run perspective, one can see that gains from competition-enhancing regulatory reform are likely to exceed … taking a dynamic perspective on competition and efficiency, one can also understand better the new modes of competition …

This paper provides some stylised facts about differences in labour productivity and total factor productivity (TFP) in … Estonian firms and about the role of selected determinants of productivity differences. Enterprise level panel data of the … whole population of Estonian firms from years 1995-2002 is used. It appears that the variation of productivity indicators in …

looking at the production side of the economy attempts to provide another argument in favor of competition as a productivity … testing of the competition effect on the individual firms' productivity. The project strives to test the relationship between …Belief that competition is beneficial in general and for productive efficiency in particular is likely to root in …

In the empirical analysis of consumer markets, recent literature has begun to explore the dynamics in both consumer … behavior. For example, incorporating consumer and firm dynamics may help explain patterns in our data that are not well … firm conduct and the intensity of competition in a market. Structural analysis of these consumer and firm decisions raise a …