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Do firms reduce employment when their insiders (established, incumbent employees) claim higher wages? The conventional answer in the theoretical literature is that insider power has no influence on employment, provided that the newly hired employees (entrants) receive their reservation wages....
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unterstützen die aus der Literatur der industriellen Organisation bekannte Marktmacht-Hypothese. …
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dynamic effects accumulated by incumbents, barriers to entry are lowered but this reduces incumbents’ incentives to invest … market power, but there is no theory on the ‚information power‘ of search engines. The concept of ‚search neutrality‘ is not …
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dynamic effects accumulated by incumbents, barriers to entry are lowered but this reduces incumbents’ incentives to invest … market power, but there is no theory on the ‚information power‘ of search engines. The concept of ‚search neutrality‘ is not …
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This paper is concerned with the question of how to deal with Google Shopping’s position on online markets in order to prevent harm to public welfare. From the perspective of sellers and buyers of goods and services in Germany, Google can be seen as a gatekeeper to the Internet and thus as an...
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zu beurteilen, ob die Ausübung von Marktmacht die Ressourcenallokation auf den deutschen und ungarischen … Ausübung von Marktmacht bedingten Verzerrungen allerdings als gering anzusehen sind. Die Schätzungen implizieren, dass die …, dass die Marktmacht der Verarbeiter im deutschen Schweinesektor abnehmend ist, während sie sich im ungarischen Sektor …
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Structural budget-balance rules with countercyclical elements appear well suited to stabilize the macroeconomic volatility of oil-exporting countries and have been used successfully by other commodity exporters. Using a global DSGE model, the efficient design of such rules is found to depend on...
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In order to choose the proper size of an infrastructure and to save as much as possible on investment costs, it is necessary for the responsible party (the Centre in the language of this report) to have access to information that is typically known only by some agents or partners who may use...
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This paper analyzes optimal pricing for information goods under incomplete information, when both unlimited-usage (fixed-fee) pricing and usage-based pricing are feasible and administering usage-based pricing may involve transaction costs. It is shown that offering fixed-fee pricing in addition...
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We propose a dynamic auction mechanism for efficiently allocating multiple heterogeneous indivisible goods. These goods can be split into two distinct sets so that items in each set are substitutes but complementary to items in the other set. The seller has a reserve value for each bundle of...
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