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I investigate changes in product scope, the number of products that a firm offers, over the business cycle and decompose the impact of such changes on aggregate output. By using the Nielsen Retail Scanner data of U.S. consumer goods purchases for 2007- 2014, I find that firm product scope is an...
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competitiveness. Furthermore, the moderating effect of the coupling coordination of innovation and standardization was analyzed for … indicated that a company's level of innovation and standardization influences company competitiveness. Moreover, the …
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effectiveness of the enterprise business model on the level of its competitiveness. The study methodology suggests the author …'s approach to assessing the architecture effectiveness and the level of enterprise competitiveness. The scenario approach was … used in order to the evaluate the connection between competitiveness, business model potential and enterprise architecture …
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We exploit the OCC's preemption of national banks from state laws against predatory lending as a quasi-experiment to study the effect of deregulation and its interaction with competition on the supply of complex mortgages. Following the preemption ruling, national banks significantly increased...
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The Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy has analyzed the state of Russia's light industry and made a comparative analysis of the competitive power of production chains of Russian manufacturers and their principal foreign competitors. The analysis shows low degree of integration of Russia's...
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We develop a tractable RBC model of the stock market with heterogenous firms. Shares value rests on the rent extracted from proprietary technology à la Dixit-Stiglitz. We prove the existence and uniqueness of the fundamental equilibrium. Closed form solutions are provided for the market...
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Since the 1970s, there have been significant changes in firm dynamics within and across industries in the US. Industries are increasingly dominated by a small number of large firms ("superstars"). Markups, market concentration, profits, and R&D spending are increasing, whereas business dynamism,...
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This paper develops a theory of oligopoly and markups in general equilibrium. Firms compete in a network of product market rivalries that emerges endogenously out of the characteristics of the products and services they supply. My model embeds a novel, highly tractable and scalable demand system...
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We analyze the strategic behavior of firms when demand is determined by a rule of thumb behavior of consumers. We assume consumer dynamics where individual consumers follow simple behavioral decision rules governed by imitation and habit as suggested in consumer research. On this basis, we...
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This paper formulates a duopoly model in which firms care about relative profits as well as their own profits. Our purpose is to investigate the relationship between the weight of relative performance and R&D expenditure. We find a non-monotone relationship between the weight of relative...
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